Downloading File Content as String From S3 in Python

Follow these steps to download the content of a file as a string from Amazon S3 using the AWS Boto3 library in Python:

1. Install Boto3 Python library:

pip install boto3

2. Here's a sample code to download the content of a file as a string from Amazon S3 in Python:

import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
import io

ACCESS_SECRET = "your aws access secret"
ACCESS_KEY = "your aws access key"

s3_client = boto3.client('s3', region_name='us-east-1', aws_access_key_id=ACCESS_KEY,
                         aws_secret_access_key=ACCESS_SECRET)

bucket_name = "bucket-one"

file_name = "example.txt"

# file path in s3
key = "folder/"+file_name

# download file
try:
    str_content = ""
    bytes_buffer = io.BytesIO()

    s3_client.download_fileobj(
        Bucket=bucket_name, Key=key, Fileobj=bytes_buffer)

    byte_value = bytes_buffer.getvalue()
    str_content = byte_value.decode('utf-8')
    print("File content = ", str_content)
except ClientError as ex:
    print("Error: ", ex)