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

In Boto3, if you're checking for either a folder (prefix) or a file using list_objects. You can use the existence of 'Contents' in the response dict as a check for whether the object exists. It's another way to avoid the try/except catches as @EvilPuppetMaster suggests

import boto3
client = boto3.client('s3')
results = client.list_objects(Bucket='my-bucket', Prefix='dootdoot.jpg')
return 'Contents' in results

Answer 2

This could check both prefix and key, and fetches at most 1 key.

def prefix_exits(bucket, prefix):
    s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
    res = s3_client.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket, Prefix=prefix, MaxKeys=1)
    return 'Contents' in res

Answer 3

It's really simple with get() method

import botocore
from boto3.session import Session
session = Session(aws_access_key_id='AWS_ACCESS_KEY',
                aws_secret_access_key='AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
s3 = session.resource('s3')
bucket_s3 = s3.Bucket('bucket_name')

def not_exist(file_key):
    try:
        file_details = bucket_s3.Object(file_key).get()
        # print(file_details) # This line prints the file details
        return False
    except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as e:
        if e.response['Error']['Code'] == "NoSuchKey": # or you can check with e.reponse['HTTPStatusCode'] == '404'
            return True
        return False # For any other error it's hard to determine whether it exists or not. so based on the requirement feel free to change it to True/ False / raise Exception

print(not_exist('hello_world.txt')) 

Answer 4

The easiest way I found (and probably the most efficient) is this:

import boto3
from botocore.errorfactory import ClientError

s3 = boto3.client('s3')
try:
    s3.head_object(Bucket='bucket_name', Key='file_path')
except ClientError:
    # Not found
    pass

Answer 5

you can use Boto3 for this.

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('my-bucket')
objs = list(bucket.objects.filter(Prefix=key))
if(len(objs)>0):
    print("key exists!!")
else:
    print("key doesn't exist!")

Here key is the path you want to check exists or not

Answer 6

Here is a solution that works for me. One caveat is that I know the exact format of the key ahead of time, so I am only listing the single file

import boto3

# The s3 base class to interact with S3
class S3(object):
  def __init__(self):
    self.s3_client = boto3.client('s3')

  def check_if_object_exists(self, s3_bucket, s3_key):
    response = self.s3_client.list_objects(
      Bucket = s3_bucket,
      Prefix = s3_key
      )
    if 'ETag' in str(response):
      return True
    else:
      return False

if __name__ == '__main__':
  s3  = S3()
  if s3.check_if_object_exists(bucket, key):
    print "Found S3 object."
  else:
    print "No object found."