Listing contents of a bucket with boto3

One way to see the contents would be:

for my_bucket_object in my_bucket.objects.all():
    print(my_bucket_object)

This is similar to an 'ls' but it does not take into account the prefix folder convention and will list the objects in the bucket. It's left up to the reader to filter out prefixes which are part of the Key name.

In Python 2:

from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection

conn = S3Connection() # assumes boto.cfg setup
bucket = conn.get_bucket('bucket_name')
for obj in bucket.get_all_keys():
    print(obj.key)

In Python 3:

from boto3 import client

conn = client('s3')  # again assumes boto.cfg setup, assume AWS S3
for key in conn.list_objects(Bucket='bucket_name')['Contents']:
    print(key['Key'])

I'm assuming you have configured authentication separately.

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

my_bucket = s3.Bucket('bucket_name')

for file in my_bucket.objects.all():
    print(file.key)

In order to handle large key listings (i.e. when the directory list is greater than 1000 items), I used the following code to accumulate key values (i.e. filenames) with multiple listings (thanks to Amelio above for the first lines). Code is for python3:

    from boto3  import client
    bucket_name = "my_bucket"
    prefix      = "my_key/sub_key/lots_o_files"

    s3_conn   = client('s3')  # type: BaseClient  ## again assumes boto.cfg setup, assume AWS S3
    s3_result =  s3_conn.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name, Prefix=prefix, Delimiter = "/")

    if 'Contents' not in s3_result:
        #print(s3_result)
        return []

    file_list = []
    for key in s3_result['Contents']:
        file_list.append(key['Key'])
    print(f"List count = {len(file_list)}")

    while s3_result['IsTruncated']:
        continuation_key = s3_result['NextContinuationToken']
        s3_result = s3_conn.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name, Prefix=prefix, Delimiter="/", ContinuationToken=continuation_key)
        for key in s3_result['Contents']:
            file_list.append(key['Key'])
        print(f"List count = {len(file_list)}")
    return file_list