How to Download or Copy most recent file from the s3 to the local using Python Boto3?

Here's how to do it in Python:

import boto3
s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
response = s3_client.list_objects_v2(Bucket='MY-BUCKET', Prefix='foo/')
objects = sorted(response['Contents'], key=lambda obj: obj['LastModified'])
## Latest object
latest_object = objects[-1]['Key']
filename = latest_object[latest_object.rfind('/')+1:] # Remove path
# Download it to current directory
s3_client.download_file('MY-BUCKET', latest_object, filename)

Basically, you get back ALL objects, then sort them by LastModified.

Note: The list_objects_v2() command only returns a maximum of 1000 objects.

Full Download Function Example:

def download_file(BUCKET_NAME, PREFIX, FILE_NAME):
    try:
        s3 = boto3.client(
            's3',
            aws_access_key_id=ACCESS_KEY,
            aws_secret_access_key=SECRET_KEY,
            region_name=REGION_NAME
        )
        s3_list_response = s3.list_objects_v2(
            Bucket=BUCKET_NAME,
            Prefix=PREFIX
        )
        formatted_response = sorted(
            s3_list_response['Contents'], key=lambda item: item['LastModified'])[-1]
        s3_file_key = formatted_response["Key"]
        s3_file_path = "s3://" + BUCKET_NAME + "/" + s3_file_key
        print(f"""DOWNLOADING FILE FROM {s3_file_path} TO {LOCAL_BASE_PATH}/{FILE_NAME}""")
        with open(f"{LOCAL_BASE_PATH}/{FILE_NAME}", 'wb') as data:
            s3.download_fileobj(BUCKET_NAME, s3_file_key, data)
        data.close()
        print(f"SUCCESS !!! {FILE_NAME} Successfully Downloaded By myTechMint")

    except Exception as error_1:
        print(f"ERROR !!! Not able to download {FILE_NAME} from AWS S3", error_1)

If you wanted to do it with AWS CLI

key=$(aws s3api list-objects --bucket MY-BUCKET --prefix foo/ --query 'sort_by(Contents, &LastModified)[-1].Key' --output text)
aws s3 cp s3://MY-BUCKET/$key .