Download and Installation

Relevant resources

Cloud Object Storage’s XML SDK resources for Python can be downloaded here.
SDK quick download address: XML Python SDK.
Download Demo: XML Python Demo.

Environment requirements

COS XML SDK for Python currently supports Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.x.

For the definitions of parameters such as SecretId, SecretKey, and Bucket, see COS Glossary.

Installing SDK

You can install the SDK in three ways: installation via pip, manual installation, and offline installation.

• Installing via Pip (Recommended)

  pip install -U cos-python-sdk-v5

• Manual Installation
  Download the source code here and install the SDK manually via setup by running the following command.

  python setup.py install

• Offline Installation

  # Run the following commands on a computer connected to the Internet
  mkdir cos-python-sdk-packages
  pip download cos-python-sdk-v5 -d cos-python-sdk-packages
  tar -czvf cos-python-sdk-packages.tar.gz cos-python-sdk-packages
  # Copy the installation package to a computer that is not connected to the Internet and run the following commands.
  # Please make sure that the version of Python on the two computers is the same; otherwise, the installation will fail.
  tar -xzvf cos-python-sdk-packages.tar.gz
  pip install cos-python-sdk-v5 --no-index -f cos-python-sdk-packages

Getting Started

The section below describes how to use the COS SDK for Python to perform basic operations, such as initializing a client, creating a bucket, querying the bucket list, uploading an object, querying the object list, downloading an object, and deleting an object.

Initialization

Please refer to the following code sample:

# -*- coding=utf-8
# APPID has been removed from the configuration. Please add the APPID to the Bucket parameter in the format of `BucketName-APPID`
# 1. Set user configuration, including secretId, secretKey, and region
from qcloud_cos import CosConfig
from qcloud_cos import CosS3Client
import sys
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, stream=sys.stdout)

secret_id = 'COS_SECRETID'      # Replace with your secretId
secret_key = 'COS_SECRETKEY'      # Replace with your secretKey
region = 'COS_REGION'     # Replace with your Region
token = None                # If a temporary key is used, token needs to be passed in. This is optional and is null by default
scheme = 'https'            # Specify whether to use HTTP or HTTPS protocol to access COS. This is optional and is https by default
config = CosConfig(Region=region, SecretId=secret_id, SecretKey=secret_key, Token=token, Scheme=scheme)
# 2. Obtain client object
client = CosS3Client(config)
# Refer to the description below or the demo. For more information, see https://github.com/tencentyun/cos-python-sdk-v5/blob/master/qcloud_cos/demo.py

Setting Proxy：

# APPID has been removed from the configuration. Please add the APPID to the Bucket parameter in the format of `BucketName-APPID`
# 1. Set user configuration, including secretId, secretKey, and region
secret_id = 'COS_SECRETID'      # Replace with your secretId
secret_key = 'COS_SECRETKEY'      # Replace with your secretKey
region = 'COS_REGION'     # Replace with your region
proxies = {
    'http': '127.0.0.1:80' # Replace with your HTTP Proxy IP
    'https': '127.0.0.1:443' # Replace with your HTTPS Proxy IP
}
config = CosConfig(Region=region, SecretId=secret_id, SecretKey=secret_key, Proxies=proxies)
# 2. Obtain client object
client = CosS3Client(config)
# Refer to the description below or the demo. For more information, see https://github.com/tencentyun/cos-python-sdk-v5/blob/master/qcloud_cos/demo.py

Setting endpoint:

# APPID has been removed from the configuration. Please add the APPID to the Bucket parameter in the format of `BucketName-APPID`
# 1. Set user configuration, including secretId, secretKey, and region
secret_id = 'COS_SECRETID'      # Replace with your secretId
secret_key = 'COS_SECRETKEY'      # Replace with your secretKey
region = 'COS_REGION'     # Replace with your region
endpoint = 'cos.accelerate.myqcloud.com' # Replace with your endpoint
config = CosConfig(Region=region, SecretId=secret_id, SecretKey=secret_key, Endpoint=endpoint)
# 2. Obtain client object
client = CosS3Client(config)
# Refer to the description below or the demo. For more information, see https://github.com/tencentyun/cos-python-sdk-v5/blob/master/qcloud_cos/demo.py

For more information on how to generate and use a temporary key, see Generating and Using Temporary Keys.

Creating a bucket

response = client.create_bucket(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000'
)

Querying a bucket list

response = client.list_buckets(
)

Uploading an object

Simple upload cannot be used to upload files larger than 5 GB. For files larger than 5 GB, please use the advanced upload API described below.

#### Upload a file stream with simple upload (Simple upload cannot be used to upload files larger than 5 GB. For files larger than 5 GB, please use the advanced upload API described below)
# It is strongly recommended to open the file in binary mode; otherwise, an error may occur.
with open('picture.jpg', 'rb') as fp:
    response = client.put_object(
        Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
        Body=fp,
        Key='picture.jpg',
        StorageClass='STANDARD',
        EnableMD5=False
    )
print(response['ETag'])

#### Upload a byte stream with simple upload
response = client.put_object(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Body=b'bytes',
    Key='picture.jpg',
    EnableMD5=False
)
print(response['ETag'])


#### Simple chunk upload
import requests
stream = requests.get('https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/436/7778?from_cn_redirect=1')

# Online streams will be transferred to COS in the Transfer-Encoding:chunked manner
response = client.put_object(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Body=stream,
    Key='picture.jpg'
)
print(response['ETag'])

#### Advanced Upload API (Recommended)
# This API can automatically select between simple upload and multipart upload based on the file size. It also supports checkpoint restart for multipart uploads.
response = client.upload_file(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    LocalFilePath='local.txt',
    Key='picture.jpg',
    PartSize=1,
    MAXThread=10,
    EnableMD5=False
)
print(response['ETag'])

Querying Object List

response = client.list_objects(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Prefix='folder1'
)

A single call to the list_objects API can query up to 1,000 objects. If you want to query all objects, you need to call repeatedly.

marker = ""
while True:
    response = client.list_objects(
        Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
        Prefix='folder1',
        Marker=marker
    )
    print(response['Contents'])
    if response['IsTruncated'] == 'false':
        break 
    marker = response['NextMarker']

Downloading an object

#### Download an object to the local file system
response = client.get_object(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Key='picture.jpg',
)
response['Body'].get_stream_to_file('output.txt')

#### Download a file stream
response = client.get_object(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Key='picture.jpg',
)
fp = response['Body'].get_raw_stream()
print(fp.read(2))

#### Set the response HTTP headers
response = client.get_object(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Key='picture.jpg',
    ResponseContentType='text/html; charset=utf-8'
)
print response['Content-Type']
fp = response['Body'].get_raw_stream()
print(fp.read(2))

#### Specify the download range
response = client.get_object(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Key='picture.jpg',
    Range='bytes=0-10'
)
fp = response['Body'].get_raw_stream()
print(fp.read())

Deleting an object

# Delete an object
## deleteObject
response = client.delete_object(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Key='exampleobject'
)

# Delete multiple objects
## deleteObjects
response = client.delete_objects(
    Bucket='examplebucket-1250000000',
    Delete={
        'Object': [
            {
                'Key': 'exampleobject1',
            },
            {
                'Key': 'exampleobject2',
            },
        ],
        'Quiet': 'true'|'false'
    }
)