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Objects: list

Retrieves a list of objects matching the criteria. Try it now or see an example .

In conjunction with the prefix filter, the use of the delimiter parameter allows the list method to operate like a directory listing, despite the object namespace being flat. For example, if delimiter were set to "/", then listing objects from a bucket that contains the objects "a/b", "a/c", "d", "e", "e/f" would return objects "d" and "e", and prefixes "a/" and "e/".

The authenticated user must have READER

permissions on the bucket .

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/bucket/o

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
bucket string Name of the bucket in which to look for objects.
Optional query parameters
delimiter string Returns results in a directory-like mode. items will contain only objects whose names, aside from the prefix , do not contain delimiter . Objects whose names, aside from the prefix , contain delimiter will have their name, truncated after the delimiter , returned in prefixes . Duplicate prefixes are omitted.
maxResults unsigned integer Maximum number of items plus prefixes to return. As duplicate prefixes are omitted, fewer total results may be returned than requested.
pageToken string A previously-returned page token representing part of the larger set of results to view.
prefix string Filter results to objects whose names begin with this prefix.
projection string Set of properties to return. Defaults to noAcl .

Acceptable values are:
  • " full ": Include all properties.
  • " noAcl ": Omit the acl property.
versions boolean If true, lists all versions of a file as distinct results.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:

{
  "kind": "storage#objects",
  "nextPageToken": string,
  "prefixes": [
    string
  ],
  "items": [
    objects Resource
  ]
}
Property name Value Description Notes
kind string The kind of item this is. For lists of objects, this is always storage#objects .
nextPageToken string The continuation token, used to page through large result sets. Provide this value in a subsequent request to return the next page of results.
prefixes[] list The list of prefixes of objects matching-but-not-listed up to and including the requested delimiter.
items[] list The list of items.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library .

Storage.Objects.List listObjects = storage.objects().list("mybucket");
Objects objects;
do {
  objects = listObjects.execute();
  for (StorageObject object : objects.getItems()) {
    // Do things!
  }
  listObjects.setPageToken(objects.getNextPageToken());
} while (null != objects.getNextPageToken());

Python

Uses the Python client library .

fields_to_return = 'nextPageToken,items(bucket,name,metadata(my-key))'
req = client.objects().list(
        bucket=bucket_name,
        fields=fields_to_return,    # optional
        maxResults=42)              # optional

# If you have too many items to list in one request, list_next() will
# automatically handle paging with the pageToken.
while req is not None:
    resp = req.execute()
    print json.dumps(resp, indent=2)
    req = client.objects().list_next(req, resp)

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library .

# List all objects in a bucket.
page_token = '' # An empty pageToken will be ignored. maxResults is 1000 by default.
puts "List of objects in #{BUCKET}: "
until page_token.nil? do
  objects_list_result = client.execute(
    api_method: storage.objects.list,
    parameters: {bucket: BUCKET, pageToken: page_token}
  )
  objects_list_result.data.items.each { |item| puts item.name }
  page_token = objects_list_result.next_page_token
end

Go

Uses the Go client library .

// List all objects in a bucket.
bucketName := "BUCKET_NAME"
result, err := service.Objects.List(bucketName).Do()
fmt.Printf("Objects in bucket %v:\n", bucketName)
for _, object := range result.Items {
	fmt.Println(object.Name)
}

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