py-aws-helper 0.0.5

Helper for AWS services like S3 written in python...

Helper for AWS services like S3 written in python…

Prerequisites

• IAM user with read access to S3 and its secret keys

• AWS CLI configured with the secret keys

• Python, Pip

Getting Started

Assuming that the configuration of AWS CLI using the corresponding secret keys of the IAM user, set up your environment using Python and virtualenv and install the library using pip once the virtual environment is activated:

$ pip install py-aws-helper

Using s3objectfinder

Sample snippet:

>>> from py_aws_helper import s3objectfinder
>>> bucket=''     # provide bucket name
>>> file_name=''    # provide file name
>>> output = s3objectfinder.find_object(bucket=bucket, file_name=file_name)
>>> print('Total objects fetched: ', output['total_objects_fetched'])
>>> print('Total objects matched: ', output['total_objects_matched'])
>>> for key in output['matched_keys']:
        print('Key: ', key)

Other arguments:

The s3objectfinder module can take in two additional paramters other than the bucket and file_name namely , “prefix” and “delimiter” whose default values have been initiated as empty strings.

The corresponding documentation for populating the “prefix” and “delimiter” arguments can be found here