Download multiple files from specific “subdirectory”, AWS S3 with boto3 & Python 3.7

Question

import boto3
import os 

client = boto3.client('connect')

s3 = boto3.resource(
    service_name='s3',
    region_name='us-west-2',
    aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key_id,
    aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret_access_key
)

   
for my_bucket_object in s3.Bucket("my_bucket").objects.filter(Prefix="user/folder/"):
    s3.Object(my_bucket_object.bucket_name, my_bucket_object.key).download_file(f'./aws/{my_bucket_object.key}')

1. Without iteration, but similar code, I can successfully download individual files.
2. Without downloading, printing the bucket keys shows normal outputs

However, when I iterate over multiple files, and use the key as input for download_file, I get the following error message. Target key's name seems to be changing?

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './aws/user/folder\.7g4DBa9A'

I have the following two questions:

1. How can I prevent this from happening and download the files?
2. Is there a way to separate file names from "subdirectories" (I realize AWS doesn't use those, but keys contain directory/file-like names separated only by "/", I would like to separate those for saving purposes)

=========================================================================== Found the answer thanks to Marcin's comment. After iteratively printing all the outputs, it seemed the first one was the "folder", which translated to strange names when downloading.
ie.
user/folder/
user/folder/file1
user/folder/file2
etc.

Thus, ignoring that first iteration was able to solve it.

for obj in my_bucket.objects.filter(Prefix=prefix):
       
    output_file = obj.key.split('/')[-1]

    if output_file == "":
        continue
    else:
        s3.Object(bucket_name=my_bucket.name, key=my_bucket_object.key).download_file(arbitrary output path)

Answer 1

is there a way to separate file names from "subdirectories"

You can split the key by / and take the last element before you do download_file :

output_file = my_bucket_object.key.split('/')[-1]
s3.Object(my_bucket_object.bucket_name, my_bucket_object.key).download_file(f'./aws/output_file')