Use ListDistributions with an AWS SDK or CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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Use ListDistributions with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use ListDistributions.

CLI
AWS CLI

To list CloudFront distributions

The following example gets a list of the CloudFront distributions in your AWS account:

aws cloudfront list-distributions

Output:

{ "DistributionList": { "Items": [ { "Id": "EMLARXS9EXAMPLE", "ARN": "arn:aws:cloudfront::123456789012:distribution/EMLARXS9EXAMPLE", "Status": "InProgress", "LastModifiedTime": "2019-11-22T00:55:15.705Z", "InProgressInvalidationBatches": 0, "DomainName": "d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net", "ActiveTrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "DistributionConfig": { "CallerReference": "cli-example", "Aliases": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultRootObject": "index.html", "Origins": { "Quantity": 1, "Items": [ { "Id": "awsexamplebucket---s3.amazonaws.com.rproxy.goskope.com-cli-example", "DomainName": "awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com", "OriginPath": "", "CustomHeaders": { "Quantity": 0 }, "S3OriginConfig": { "OriginAccessIdentity": "" } } ] }, "OriginGroups": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultCacheBehavior": { "TargetOriginId": "awsexamplebucket---s3.amazonaws.com.rproxy.goskope.com-cli-example", "ForwardedValues": { "QueryString": false, "Cookies": { "Forward": "none" }, "Headers": { "Quantity": 0 }, "QueryStringCacheKeys": { "Quantity": 0 } }, "TrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "ViewerProtocolPolicy": "allow-all", "MinTTL": 0, "AllowedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ], "CachedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ] } }, "SmoothStreaming": false, "DefaultTTL": 86400, "MaxTTL": 31536000, "Compress": false, "LambdaFunctionAssociations": { "Quantity": 0 }, "FieldLevelEncryptionId": "" }, "CacheBehaviors": { "Quantity": 0 }, "CustomErrorResponses": { "Quantity": 0 }, "Comment": "", "Logging": { "Enabled": false, "IncludeCookies": false, "Bucket": "", "Prefix": "" }, "PriceClass": "PriceClass_All", "Enabled": true, "ViewerCertificate": { "CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": true, "MinimumProtocolVersion": "TLSv1", "CertificateSource": "cloudfront" }, "Restrictions": { "GeoRestriction": { "RestrictionType": "none", "Quantity": 0 } }, "WebACLId": "", "HttpVersion": "http2", "IsIPV6Enabled": true } }, { "Id": "EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE", "ARN": "arn:aws:cloudfront::123456789012:distribution/EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE", "Status": "InProgress", "LastModifiedTime": "2019-12-04T23:35:41.433Z", "InProgressInvalidationBatches": 0, "DomainName": "d930174dauwrn8.cloudfront.net", "ActiveTrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "DistributionConfig": { "CallerReference": "cli-example", "Aliases": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultRootObject": "index.html", "Origins": { "Quantity": 1, "Items": [ { "Id": "awsexamplebucket1---s3.amazonaws.com.rproxy.goskope.com-cli-example", "DomainName": "awsexamplebucket1.s3.amazonaws.com", "OriginPath": "", "CustomHeaders": { "Quantity": 0 }, "S3OriginConfig": { "OriginAccessIdentity": "" } } ] }, "OriginGroups": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultCacheBehavior": { "TargetOriginId": "awsexamplebucket1---s3.amazonaws.com.rproxy.goskope.com-cli-example", "ForwardedValues": { "QueryString": false, "Cookies": { "Forward": "none" }, "Headers": { "Quantity": 0 }, "QueryStringCacheKeys": { "Quantity": 0 } }, "TrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "ViewerProtocolPolicy": "allow-all", "MinTTL": 0, "AllowedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ], "CachedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ] } }, "SmoothStreaming": false, "DefaultTTL": 86400, "MaxTTL": 31536000, "Compress": false, "LambdaFunctionAssociations": { "Quantity": 0 }, "FieldLevelEncryptionId": "" }, "CacheBehaviors": { "Quantity": 0 }, "CustomErrorResponses": { "Quantity": 0 }, "Comment": "", "Logging": { "Enabled": false, "IncludeCookies": false, "Bucket": "", "Prefix": "" }, "PriceClass": "PriceClass_All", "Enabled": true, "ViewerCertificate": { "CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": true, "MinimumProtocolVersion": "TLSv1", "CertificateSource": "cloudfront" }, "Restrictions": { "GeoRestriction": { "RestrictionType": "none", "Quantity": 0 } }, "WebACLId": "", "HttpVersion": "http2", "IsIPV6Enabled": true } }, { "Id": "E1X5IZQEXAMPLE", "ARN": "arn:aws:cloudfront::123456789012:distribution/E1X5IZQEXAMPLE", "Status": "Deployed", "LastModifiedTime": "2019-11-06T21:31:48.864Z", "DomainName": "d2e04y12345678.cloudfront.net", "Aliases": { "Quantity": 0 }, "Origins": { "Quantity": 1, "Items": [ { "Id": "awsexamplebucket2", "DomainName": "awsexamplebucket2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com", "OriginPath": "", "CustomHeaders": { "Quantity": 0 }, "S3OriginConfig": { "OriginAccessIdentity": "" } } ] }, "OriginGroups": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultCacheBehavior": { "TargetOriginId": "awsexamplebucket2", "ForwardedValues": { "QueryString": false, "Cookies": { "Forward": "none" }, "Headers": { "Quantity": 0 }, "QueryStringCacheKeys": { "Quantity": 0 } }, "TrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "ViewerProtocolPolicy": "allow-all", "MinTTL": 0, "AllowedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ], "CachedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ] } }, "SmoothStreaming": false, "DefaultTTL": 86400, "MaxTTL": 31536000, "Compress": false, "LambdaFunctionAssociations": { "Quantity": 0 }, "FieldLevelEncryptionId": "" }, "CacheBehaviors": { "Quantity": 0 }, "CustomErrorResponses": { "Quantity": 0 }, "Comment": "", "PriceClass": "PriceClass_All", "Enabled": true, "ViewerCertificate": { "CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": true, "MinimumProtocolVersion": "TLSv1", "CertificateSource": "cloudfront" }, "Restrictions": { "GeoRestriction": { "RestrictionType": "none", "Quantity": 0 } }, "WebACLId": "", "HttpVersion": "HTTP1_1", "IsIPV6Enabled": true } ] } }
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: Returns distributions.

Get-CFDistributionList
  • For API details, see ListDistributions in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

class CloudFrontWrapper: """Encapsulates Amazon CloudFront operations.""" def __init__(self, cloudfront_client): """ :param cloudfront_client: A Boto3 CloudFront client """ self.cloudfront_client = cloudfront_client def list_distributions(self): print("CloudFront distributions:\n") distributions = self.cloudfront_client.list_distributions() if distributions["DistributionList"]["Quantity"] > 0: for distribution in distributions["DistributionList"]["Items"]: print(f"Domain: {distribution['DomainName']}") print(f"Distribution Id: {distribution['Id']}") print( f"Certificate Source: " f"{distribution['ViewerCertificate']['CertificateSource']}" ) if distribution["ViewerCertificate"]["CertificateSource"] == "acm": print( f"Certificate: {distribution['ViewerCertificate']['Certificate']}" ) print("") else: print("No CloudFront distributions detected.")
  • For API details, see ListDistributions in AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.