How to list AWS S3 bucket contents by modified date?

You can use AWS CLI s3api List-Objects and query on the modified date field to to list all the objects during a specific time as shown below –

## List all objects on a specific date defined by `YYYY-MM-DD`
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket <S3_BUCKET_NAME> --query 'Contents[?contains(LastModified, `YYYY-MM-DD`)].Key'

## List all objects after a certain date defined by `YYYY-MM-DD`
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket <S3_BUCKET_NAME>  --query 'Contents[?LastModified>=`YYYY-MM-DD`].Key'

## List all objects between certain dates defined by `YYYY-MM-DD`
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket <S3_BUCKET_NAME>  --query 'Contents[?LastModified>=`YYYY-MM-DD` && LastModified<=`YYYY-MM-DD`].Key'

## List all objects on a specific date defined by `YYYY-MM-DD`

aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket --query 'Contents[?contains(LastModified, `YYYY-MM-DD`)].Key'

## List all objects after a certain date defined by `YYYY-MM-DD`

aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket --query 'Contents[?LastModified>=`YYYY-MM-DD`].Key'

## List all objects between certain dates defined by `YYYY-MM-DD`

aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket --query 'Contents[?LastModified>=`YYYY-MM-DD` && LastModified<=`YYYY-MM-DD`].Key'

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ManFLy March 21, 2022 Log in to Reply

Hi,

What if i just want files 1 day back every day, or Hours, minutes
I would like to se if there is a backupfile from yesterday in a S3 bucket? and that I want to do everyday.
?LastModified -1 day
How can i build in that mechanism ?

cheers

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