Small Python CLI application for removing any object tags from all objects in a bucket

s3-strip-object-tags.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import argparse
import logging
import sys

import boto3

LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)


def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('bucket', nargs='?',
                        help='s3 bucket to remove object tags from')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    if not args.bucket:
        sys.stderr.write(
            'ERROR: Must specify the bucket to remove object tags from\n')
        sys.exit(1)

    client = boto3.client('s3')
    paginator = client.get_paginator('list_objects_v2')

    count = 0
    for page in paginator.paginate(Bucket=args.bucket):
        for item in page['Contents']:
            client.delete_object_tagging(Bucket=args.bucket, Key=item['Key'])
            LOGGER.info('Removed any tags from %s', item['Key'])
            count += 0

    LOGGER.info('Performed %i delete_object_tagging API calls', count)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
    main()