check if a key exists in a bucket in s3 using boto3

Question

I would like to know if a key exists in boto3. I can loop the bucket contents and check the key if it matches.

But that seems longer and an overkill. Boto3 official

Answer 1

import boto3
client = boto3.client('s3')
s3_key = 'Your file without bucket name e.g. abc/bcd.txt'
bucket = 'your bucket name'
content = client.head_object(Bucket=bucket,Key=s3_key)
    if content.get('ResponseMetadata',None) is not None:
        print "File exists - s3://%s/%s " %(bucket,s3_key) 
    else:
        print "File does not exist - s3://%s/%s " %(bucket,s3_key)

Answer 2

Check out

bucket.get_key(
    key_name, 
    headers=None, 
    version_id=None, 
    response_headers=None, 
    validate=True
)

Check to see if a particular key exists within the bucket. This method uses a HEAD request to check for the existence of the key. Returns: An instance of a Key object or None

from Boto S3 Docs

You can just call bucket.get_key(keyname) and check if the returned object is None.

Answer 3

Boto 2's boto.s3.key.Key object used to have an exists method that checked if the key existed on S3 by doing a HEAD request and looking at the the result, but it seems that that no longer exists. You have to do it yourself:

import boto3
import botocore

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

try:
    s3.Object('my-bucket', 'dootdoot.jpg').load()
except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as e:
    if e.response['Error']['Code'] == "404":
        # The object does not exist.
        ...
    else:
        # Something else has gone wrong.
        raise
else:
    # The object does exist.
    ...

load() does a HEAD request for a single key, which is fast, even if the object in question is large or you have many objects in your bucket.

Of course, you might be checking if the object exists because you're planning on using it. If that is the case, you can just forget about the load() and do a get() or download_file() directly, then handle the error case there.

Answer 4

Assuming you just want to check if a key exists (instead of quietly over-writing it), do this check first:

import boto3

def key_exists(mykey, mybucket):
  s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
  response = s3_client.list_objects_v2(Bucket=mybucket, Prefix=mykey)
  if response:
      for obj in response['Contents']:
          if mykey == obj['Key']:
              return True
  return False

if key_exists('someprefix/myfile-abc123', 'my-bucket-name'):
    print("key exists")
else:
    print("safe to put new bucket object")
    # try:
    #     resp = s3_client.put_object(Body="Your string or file-like object",
    #                                 Bucket=mybucket,Key=mykey)
    # ...check resp success and ClientError exception for errors...

Answer 5

I'm not a big fan of using exceptions for control flow. This is an alternative approach that works in boto3:

import boto3

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('my-bucket')
key = 'dootdoot.jpg'
objs = list(bucket.objects.filter(Prefix=key))
if any([w.key == path_s3 for w in objs]):
    print("Exists!")
else:
    print("Doesn't exist")

Answer 6

Try This simple

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('mybucket_name') # just Bucket name
file_name = 'A/B/filename.txt'      # full file path
obj = list(bucket.objects.filter(Prefix=file_name))
if len(obj) > 0:
    print("Exists")
else:
    print("Not Exists")