Quick way to list all files in Amazon S3 bucket using php?

Below code is just one trick, work around for this problem, I have pointed to my CDN bucket folder which have lot of folder alphabetically (a-z & A-Z), so I just made a multiple requests to make it list all files,

This code is to list mp4, pdf, png, jpg or all files

//letter range a-z and A-Z
$az = range('a', 'z');
$AZ = range('A', 'Z');
//To get the total no of files
$total = 0;
//text file
$File = "CDNFileList.txt"; 

//getting dropdownlist values 
$selectedoption = $_POST['cdn_dropdown_list'];
$file_ext = '';
if ($selectedoption == 'pdf'){
    $file_ext = 'PDF DOCUMENTS';
}else if(($selectedoption == 'jpg')){
    $file_ext = 'JPEG IMAGES';
}else if(($selectedoption == 'png')){
    $file_ext = 'PNG IMAGES';
}else if($selectedoption == 'mp4'){
    $file_ext = 'MP4 VIDEOS';
}else if($selectedoption == 'all'){
    $file_ext = 'ALL CONTENTS';
}
//Creating table
echo "<table style='width:300px' border='1'><th colspan='2'><b>List of $file_ext</b></th><tr><td><b>Name of the File</b></td><td><b>URL of the file</b></td></tr>";

foreach($az as $value){
        $response = $s3Client->listObjects(array('Bucket' => $bucket, 'MaxKeys' => 1000, 'Prefix' => 'files/'.$value));
        $files = $response->getPath('Contents');
        $file_list = array();
        foreach ($files as $file) {
                $filename = $file['Key'];
                if ( 'all' == ($selectedoption)){
                        $file_path_parts = pathinfo($filename);
                        $file_name = $file_path_parts['filename'];
                        echo "<tr><td>$file_name</td><td><a href = '";
                        echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                        echo "' target='_blank'>";
                        echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                        echo "</a></td></tr>";
                        $filename = $baseUrl.$filename.PHP_EOL; 
                        array_push($file_list, $filename);
                        $total++;
                }else{
                    $filetype = strtolower(substr($filename, strrpos($filename, '.')+1));
                    if ($filetype == ($selectedoption)){
                        $file_path_parts = pathinfo($filename);
                        $file_name = $file_path_parts['filename'];
                        echo "<tr><td>$file_name</td><td><a href = '";
                        echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                        echo "' target='_blank'>";
                        echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                        echo "</a></td></tr>";
                        $filename = $baseUrl.$filename.PHP_EOL; 
                        array_push($file_list, $filename);
                        $total++;
                    }
                }
        }
}

foreach($AZ as $value){
        $response = $s3Client->listObjects(array('Bucket' => $bucket, 'MaxKeys' => 1000, 'Prefix' => 'files/'.$value));
        $files = $response->getPath('Contents');
        $file_list = array();
        foreach ($files as $file) {
            $filename = $file['Key'];
            if ( 'all' == ($selectedoption)){
                    $file_path_parts = pathinfo($filename);
                    $file_name = $file_path_parts['filename'];
                    echo "<tr><td>$file_name</td><td><a href = '";
                    echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                    echo "' target='_blank'>";
                    echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                    echo "</a></td></tr>";
                    $filename = $baseUrl.$filename.PHP_EOL; 
                    array_push($file_list, $filename);
                    $total++;
            }else{
                $filetype = strtolower(substr($filename, strrpos($filename, '.')+1));
                if ($filetype == ($selectedoption)){
                    $file_path_parts = pathinfo($filename);
                    $file_name = $file_path_parts['filename'];
                    echo "<tr><td>$file_name</td><td><a href = '";
                    echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                    echo "' target='_blank'>";
                    echo $baseUrl.$filename;
                    echo "</a></td></tr>";
                    $filename = $baseUrl.$filename.PHP_EOL; 
                    array_push($file_list, $filename);
                    $total++;
                }
            }
        }
}
echo "</table><br/>";
print "\n\nTOTAL NO OF $file_ext ".$total;

This is just a workaround for this problem,Since there is no AWS API to list all the files (more than 1000). hope it helps someone.


To get more than 1000 objects, you must make multiple requests using the Marker parameter to tell S3 where you left off for each request. Using the Iterators feature of the AWS SDK for PHP makes it easier to get all of your objects, because it encapsulates the logic of making multiple API requests. Try this:

$objects = $s3Client->getListObjectsIterator(array(
    'Bucket' => $bucket,
    'Prefix' => 'files/'
));

foreach ($objects as $object) {
    echo $object['Key'] . "\n";
}

With latest PHP SDK (as of March 2016) the code must be written like this instead:

$objects = $s3Client->getIterator('ListObjects', array(
    'Bucket' => $bucket,
    'Prefix' => 'files/'
));

Use Paginator to get all files

    $client = new S3Client([
        'version' => AWS_S3_CLIENT_FACTORY_VERSION,
        'region' => AWS_S3_CLIENT_FACTORY_REGION,

    ]);
    $objects = $client->getPaginator('ListObjects', ['Bucket' => "my-bucket"]);
    foreach ($objects as $listResponse) {
        $items = $listResponse->search("Contents[?starts_with(Key,'path/to/folder/')]");
        foreach($items as $item) {
            echo $item['Key'] . PHP_EOL;
        }
    }

To get all files change the search to:

$listResponse->search("Contents[*]");