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list_objects

Operation

list_objects async

list_objects(input: ListObjectsInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> ListObjectsOutput
Note

This operation is not supported for directory buckets.

Returns some or all (up to 1,000) of the objects in a bucket. You can use the request parameters as selection criteria to return a subset of the objects in a bucket. A 200 OK response can contain valid or invalid XML. Be sure to design your application to parse the contents of the response and handle it appropriately.

Warning

This action has been revised. We recommend that you use the newer version, ListObjectsV2, when developing applications. For backward compatibility, Amazon S3 continues to support ListObjects.

The following operations are related to ListObjects:

Warning

You must URL encode any signed header values that contain spaces. For example, if your header value is my file.txt, containing two spaces after my, you must URL encode this value to my%20%20file.txt.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input ListObjectsInput

An instance of ListObjectsInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
ListObjectsOutput

An instance of ListObjectsOutput.

Input

ListObjectsInput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for ListObjectsInput structure.

Attributes

bucket class-attribute instance-attribute
bucket: str | None = ...

The name of the bucket containing the objects.

Directory buckets - When you use this operation with a directory bucket, you must use virtual-hosted-style requests in the format Bucket-name.s3express-zone-id.region-code.amazonaws.com. Path-style requests are not supported. Directory bucket names must be unique in the chosen Zone (Availability Zone or Local Zone). Bucket names must follow the format bucket-base-name--zone-id--x-s3 (for example, amzn-s3-demo-bucket--usw2-az1--x-s3). For information about bucket naming restrictions, see Directory bucket naming rules in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Access points - When you use this action with an access point for general purpose buckets, you must provide the alias of the access point in place of the bucket name or specify the access point ARN. When you use this action with an access point for directory buckets, you must provide the access point name in place of the bucket name. When using the access point ARN, you must direct requests to the access point hostname. The access point hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.s3-accesspoint.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this action with an access point through the Amazon Web Services SDKs, you provide the access point ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about access point ARNs, see Using access points in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Note

Object Lambda access points are not supported by directory buckets.

S3 on Outposts - When you use this action with S3 on Outposts, you must direct requests to the S3 on Outposts hostname. The S3 on Outposts hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.outpostID.s3-outposts.Region.amazonaws.com. When you use this action with S3 on Outposts, the destination bucket must be the Outposts access point ARN or the access point alias. For more information about S3 on Outposts, see What is S3 on Outposts? in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

delimiter class-attribute instance-attribute
delimiter: str | None = ...

A delimiter is a character that you use to group keys.

CommonPrefixes is filtered out from results if it is not lexicographically greater than the key-marker.

encoding_type class-attribute instance-attribute
encoding_type: str | None = ...

Encoding type used by Amazon S3 to encode the object keys in the response. Responses are encoded only in UTF-8. An object key can contain any Unicode character. However, the XML 1.0 parser can't parse certain characters, such as characters with an ASCII value from 0 to 10. For characters that aren't supported in XML 1.0, you can add this parameter to request that Amazon S3 encode the keys in the response. For more information about characters to avoid in object key names, see Object key naming guidelines.

Note

When using the URL encoding type, non-ASCII characters that are used in an object's key name will be percent-encoded according to UTF-8 code values. For example, the object test_file(3).png will appear as test_file%283%29.png.

expected_bucket_owner class-attribute instance-attribute
expected_bucket_owner: str | None = ...

The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the account ID that you provide does not match the actual owner of the bucket, the request fails with the HTTP status code 403 Forbidden (access denied).

marker class-attribute instance-attribute
marker: str | None = ...

Marker is where you want Amazon S3 to start listing from. Amazon S3 starts listing after this specified key. Marker can be any key in the bucket.

max_keys class-attribute instance-attribute
max_keys: int | None = ...

Sets the maximum number of keys returned in the response. By default, the action returns up to 1,000 key names. The response might contain fewer keys but will never contain more.

optional_object_attributes class-attribute instance-attribute
optional_object_attributes: list[str] | None = ...

Specifies the optional fields that you want returned in the response. Fields that you do not specify are not returned.

prefix class-attribute instance-attribute
prefix: str | None = ...

Limits the response to keys that begin with the specified prefix.

request_payer class-attribute instance-attribute
request_payer: str | None = ...

Confirms that the requester knows that she or he will be charged for the list objects request. Bucket owners need not specify this parameter in their requests.

Output

ListObjectsOutput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for ListObjectsOutput structure.

Attributes

common_prefixes class-attribute instance-attribute
common_prefixes: list[CommonPrefix] | None = ...

All of the keys (up to 1,000) rolled up in a common prefix count as a single return when calculating the number of returns.

A response can contain CommonPrefixes only if you specify a delimiter.

CommonPrefixes contains all (if there are any) keys between Prefix and the next occurrence of the string specified by the delimiter.

CommonPrefixes lists keys that act like subdirectories in the directory specified by Prefix.

For example, if the prefix is notes/ and the delimiter is a slash (/), as in notes/summer/july, the common prefix is notes/summer/. All of the keys that roll up into a common prefix count as a single return when calculating the number of returns.

contents class-attribute instance-attribute
contents: list[Object] | None = ...

Metadata about each object returned.

delimiter class-attribute instance-attribute
delimiter: str | None = ...

Causes keys that contain the same string between the prefix and the first occurrence of the delimiter to be rolled up into a single result element in the CommonPrefixes collection. These rolled-up keys are not returned elsewhere in the response. Each rolled-up result counts as only one return against the MaxKeys value.

encoding_type class-attribute instance-attribute
encoding_type: str | None = ...

Encoding type used by Amazon S3 to encode the object keys in the response. Responses are encoded only in UTF-8. An object key can contain any Unicode character. However, the XML 1.0 parser can't parse certain characters, such as characters with an ASCII value from 0 to 10. For characters that aren't supported in XML 1.0, you can add this parameter to request that Amazon S3 encode the keys in the response. For more information about characters to avoid in object key names, see Object key naming guidelines.

Note

When using the URL encoding type, non-ASCII characters that are used in an object's key name will be percent-encoded according to UTF-8 code values. For example, the object test_file(3).png will appear as test_file%283%29.png.

is_truncated class-attribute instance-attribute
is_truncated: bool | None = ...

A flag that indicates whether Amazon S3 returned all of the results that satisfied the search criteria.

marker class-attribute instance-attribute
marker: str | None = ...

Indicates where in the bucket listing begins. Marker is included in the response if it was sent with the request.

max_keys class-attribute instance-attribute
max_keys: int | None = ...

The maximum number of keys returned in the response body.

name class-attribute instance-attribute
name: str | None = ...

The bucket name.

next_marker class-attribute instance-attribute
next_marker: str | None = ...

When the response is truncated (the IsTruncated element value in the response is true), you can use the key name in this field as the marker parameter in the subsequent request to get the next set of objects. Amazon S3 lists objects in alphabetical order.

Note

This element is returned only if you have the delimiter request parameter specified. If the response does not include the NextMarker element and it is truncated, you can use the value of the last Key element in the response as the marker parameter in the subsequent request to get the next set of object keys.

prefix class-attribute instance-attribute
prefix: str | None = ...

Keys that begin with the indicated prefix.

request_charged class-attribute instance-attribute
request_charged: str | None = ...

If present, indicates that the requester was successfully charged for the request. For more information, see Using Requester Pays buckets for storage transfers and usage in the Amazon Simple Storage Service user guide.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

response_metadata class-attribute instance-attribute
response_metadata: ResponseMetadata = ...

Metadata about the response that produced this output. Use this to recover the request identifiers a service's support team needs in order to investigate a call. Members of the metadata are individually optional.