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How to download simple storage service(s3) bucket files directly on user's local machine?

Axxy
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  • Are you looking for a solution implemented in your own program code or an off the shelf application to do this? I assume the later because you have not tagged your question with a programming language tag. – camelCase Aug 16 '17 at 10:42
  • I am going to use that command in bash script. Which i will configured as cron job so it will automatically download logs on my machine – Axxy Aug 16 '17 at 10:49
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  • Possible duplicate of [Getting 403 forbidden from s3 when attempting to download a file](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37192084/getting-403-forbidden-from-s3-when-attempting-to-download-a-file) – Dawny33 Aug 17 '17 at 01:28

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you can check the aws s3 cli so to copy a file from s3.

The following cp command copies a single object to a specified file locally: 

aws s3 cp s3://mybucket/test.txt test2.txt

Make sure to use quotes " in case you have spaces in your key

aws s3 cp "s3://mybucket/test with space.txt" "./test with space.txt"
Frederic Henri
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  • thanks Frédéric Henri but this will copy file on virtualmachine on aws, I wants to download that file from s3 on my machine from where i am accesssing aws – Axxy Aug 17 '17 at 11:11
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    The command will copy a file to an s3 bucket. The question asked is to do the reverse. – GhostCode Jul 18 '18 at 09:14
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    @GhostCode check on a bucket, this copies a S3 object to a file locally, you can even check doc I refer from the link and search for "Copying an S3 object to a local file" – Frederic Henri Jul 18 '18 at 09:17
  • Yes, I saw the command carefully now. I thought your answer was : aws s3 cp test.txt s3://mybucket/test2.txt Sorry for being hasty – GhostCode Jul 18 '18 at 12:54
  • you can do the `cp` command as long as your user and bucket have `PutItem` permissions – thedanotto Jul 11 '19 at 15:55
  • I used this command for downloading a file from localstack and it worked fine. – mehdi mohammadi Oct 31 '19 at 12:33