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#S3 using python-requests
AWS authentication for Amazon S3 for the wonderful pyhon requests library
import requests
from awsauth import S3Auth
ACCESS_KEY = 'ACCESSKEYXXXXXXXXXXXX'
SECRET_KEY = 'AWSSECRETKEYXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
url = 'http://mybuck.s3.amazonaws.com/file.txt'
s = 'Lola is sweet'
# Creating a file
r = requests.put(url, data=s, auth=S3Auth(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY))
# Downloading a file
r = requests.get(url, auth=S3Auth(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY))
if r.text == 'Lola is sweet':
print "It works"
# Removing a file
r = requests.delete(url, auth=S3Auth(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY))
Installing requests-aws is simple with pip:
$ pip install requests-aws
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AWS authentication for Amazon S3 for the python requests module
We found that requests-aws demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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