Use Boto3 to retrieve over 1000 Prefixes from S3's file list

As a memorandum

By default, you can only get up to 1000 Prefixes from S3, so if you have 1000 or more, use paginator.

Boto3 Documentation

import boto3

# Create a client
client = boto3.client('s3', region_name='us-west-2')

# Create a reusable Paginator
paginator = client.get_paginator('list_objects')

# Create a PageIterator from the Paginator
page_iterator = paginator.paginate(Bucket='my-bucket')

for page in page_iterator:
    print(page['Contents'])

As mentioned above by default in the document, the list of 1000 Prefixes is stored in the list of page_iterator. I will expand them to make them easier to handle.

import boto3
import itertools

client = boto3.client('s3', region_name='us-west-2')
paginator = client.get_paginator('list_objects')
page_iterator = paginator.paginate(Bucket='my-bucket')
contents = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(page_iterator))

Now you can handle over 1000 prefixes