Excel AWS S3: Get S3 Object Tags

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Returns the tags associated with an object. This example gets the tags for the object named "starfish.jpg" located in the bucket "chilkat100".

Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectGETtagging.html

CURL Command

curl -X GET https://chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com/starfish.jpg?tagging

Excel Example

Dim rest As Chilkat.Rest
Set rest = Chilkat.NewRest

Dim authAws As Chilkat.AuthAws
Set authAws = Chilkat.NewAuthAws
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.Region = "us-east-1"
authAws.ServiceName = "s3"
success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

'  URL: https://chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com/starfish.jpg?tagging

bTls = True

port = 443

bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print "ConnectFailReason: "; rest.ConnectFailReason
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim sbResponseBody As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbResponseBody = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/starfish.jpg?tagging",sbResponseBody)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If


respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Status Code = "; respStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim xmlResponse As Chilkat.Xml
Set xmlResponse = Chilkat.NewXml
success = xmlResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody,True)

'  See the Online Tool for Generating XML Parse Code

Tagging_xmlns = xmlResponse.GetAttrValue("xmlns")
i = 0
count_i = xmlResponse.NumChildrenHavingTag("TagSet|Tag")
Do While i < count_i
    xmlResponse.I = i
    Key = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("TagSet|Tag[i]|Key")
    Value = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("TagSet|Tag[i]|Value")
    i = i + 1
Loop

Sample XML Response Body

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Tagging xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
    <TagSet>
        <Tag>
            <Key>habitat</Key>
            <Value>ocean</Value>
        </Tag>
        <Tag>
            <Key>phylum</Key>
            <Value>Echinodermata</Value>
        </Tag>
        <Tag>
            <Key>animal</Key>
            <Value>starfish</Value>
        </Tag>
    </TagSet>
</Tagging>