How can I get objects in a S3 bucket?

How can I get only one level of objects in a S3 bucket?

• I want to list only the objects in a bucket that aren't buckets themselves. Is there a way of doing this short of parsing out the results of ListBucket?

• Answer:

  objects in a bucket that aren't buckets themselves Buckets can't contain other buckets. Do you mean folders? S3 doesn't have a concept of folders either. You can have 100 buckets per S3 account and each bucket can contain an unlimited number of objects/files. If you name your files with /'s in the filename, the AWS GUI tools (eg AWS Console, BucketExplorer etc) will interpret each section as a virtual folder. eg A file named folder1/folder2/myfile.jpg will be stored in S3 as a 'flat' file with that name, but in the GUI tools it will appear as though a file named myfile.jpg is 2 subfolders down in folder1/folder2. You can use the prefix and delimiter parameters to parse the results of a http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/index.html?RESTBucketGET.html call. The same options are available in any of the SDKs too. UPDATE to answer comment. Assuming our S3 bucket looks like this: mybucket folder1 file1.txt file2.txt folder2 file3.txt file4.txt folder3 file5.txt file6.txt Using prefix = "folder1/" would return all 6 files : file1.txt to file6.txt. Using a prefix = "folder1/" and a delimiter = "/" would return 2 files: file1.txt file2.txt And the CommonPrefixes collection of the response with contain folder1/folder2/ folder1/folder3/