How to download the latest file of an S3 bucket using Boto3?

Question

The other questions I could find were refering to an older version of Boto. I would like to download the latest file of an S3 bucket. In the documentation I found that there

Answer 1

This is basically the same answer as helloV in the case you use Session as I'm doing.

from boto3.session import Session
import settings

session = Session(aws_access_key_id=settings.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
                          aws_secret_access_key=settings.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
s3 = session.resource("s3")

get_last_modified = lambda obj: int(obj.last_modified.strftime('%s'))


bckt = s3.Bucket("my_bucket")
objs = [obj for obj in bckt.objects.all()]

objs = [obj for obj in sorted(objs, key=get_last_modified)]
last_added = objs[-1].key

Having objs sorted allows you to quickly delete all files but the latest with

for obj in objs[:-1]:
    s3.Object("my_bucket", obj.key).delete()

Answer 2

This handles when there are more than 1000 objects in the s3 bucket. This is basically @SaadK answer without the for loop and using newer version for list_objects_v2.

EDIT: Fixes issue @Timothée-Jeannin identified. Ensures that latest across all pages is identified.

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/s3.html#S3.Paginator.ListObjectsV2

import boto3

def get_most_recent_s3_object(bucket_name, prefix):
    s3 = boto3.client('s3')
    paginator = s3.get_paginator( "list_objects_v2" )
    page_iterator = paginator.paginate(Bucket=bucket_name, Prefix=prefix)
    latest = None
    for page in page_iterator:
        if "Contents" in page:
            latest2 = max(page['Contents'], key=lambda x: x['LastModified'])
            if latest is None or latest2['LastModified'] > latest['LastModified']:
                latest = latest2
    return latest

latest = get_most_recent_s3_object(bucket_name, prefix)

latest['Key']  # -->   'prefix/objectname'

Answer 3

I also wanted to download latest file from s3 bucket but located in a specific folder. Use following function to get latest filename using bucket name and prefix (which is folder name).

import boto3

def get_latest_file_name(bucket_name,prefix):
    """
    Return the latest file name in an S3 bucket folder.

    :param bucket: Name of the S3 bucket.
    :param prefix: Only fetch keys that start with this prefix (folder  name).
    """
    s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
    objs = s3_client.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name)['Contents']
    shortlisted_files = dict()            
    for obj in objs:
        key = obj['Key']
        timestamp = obj['LastModified']
        # if key starts with folder name retrieve that key
        if key.startswith(prefix):              
            # Adding a new key value pair
            shortlisted_files.update( {key : timestamp} )   
    latest_filename = max(shortlisted_files, key=shortlisted_files.get)
    return latest_filename

latest_filename = get_latest_file_name(bucket_name='use_your_bucket_name',prefix = 'folder_name/')

Answer 4

If you have a lot of files then you'll need to use pagination as mentioned by helloV. This is how I did it.

get_last_modified = lambda obj: int(obj['LastModified'].strftime('%s'))
s3 = boto3.client('s3')
paginator = s3.get_paginator( "list_objects" )
page_iterator = paginator.paginate( Bucket = "BucketName", Prefix = "Prefix")
for page in page_iterator:
    if "Contents" in page:
        last_added = [obj['Key'] for obj in sorted( page["Contents"], key=get_last_modified)][-1]

Answer 5

You should be able to download the latest version of the file using default download file command

import boto3
import botocore

BUCKET_NAME = 'mytestbucket'
KEY = 'fileinbucket.txt'

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

try:
    s3.Bucket(BUCKET_NAME).download_file(KEY, 'downloadname.txt')
except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as e:
    if e.response['Error']['Code'] == "404":
        print("The object does not exist.")
    else:
        raise

Reference link

To get the last modified or uploaded file you can use the following

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
my_bucket = s3.Bucket('myBucket')
unsorted = []
for file in my_bucket.objects.filter():
   unsorted.append(file)

files = [obj.key for obj in sorted(unsorted, key=get_last_modified, 
    reverse=True)][0:9]

As answer in this reference link states, its not the optimal but it works.

Answer 6

Variation of the answer I provided for: Boto3 S3, sort bucket by last modified. You can modify the code to suit to your needs.

get_last_modified = lambda obj: int(obj['LastModified'].strftime('%s'))

s3 = boto3.client('s3')
objs = s3.list_objects_v2(Bucket='my_bucket')['Contents']
last_added = [obj['Key'] for obj in sorted(objs, key=get_last_modified)][0]

If you want to reverse the sort:

[obj['Key'] for obj in sorted(objs, key=get_last_modified, reverse=True)][0]