Help Center/ Object Storage Service/ User Guide/ Bucket Management/ Listing Buckets
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Listing Buckets

You can list all created buckets to view their information.

Important Notes

By default, bucket listing requests are happened in the CN North-Beijing1 region. Therefore, the expenditures for ListAllMyBucketsOperation requests are included in this region.

Ways to List Buckets

You can use OBS Console, APIs, SDKs, OBS Browser+, or obsutil to list buckets.

Using OBS Console

  1. Log in to OBS Console.
  2. Go to the bucket list page, which displays all buckets under your account.

Using APIs

Listing Buckets

Using SDKs

Java

Python

C

Go

BrowserJS: not supported

.NET

Android

iOS

PHP

Node.js

Using the GUI Tool - OBS Browser+

Log in to OBS Browser+. All buckets under your account are displayed in the bucket list.

Using the CLI Tool - obsutil

Command Line Structure

  • In Windows 
    obsutil ls [-s] [-fs] [-sc] [-du] [-fs] [-j=1] [-limit=1] [-format=default] [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]
  • In Linux or macOS 
    ./obsutil ls [-s] [-fs] [-sc] [-du] [-fs] [-j=1] [-limit=1] [-format=default] [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]

Examples

  • Take the Windows OS as an example. Run the obsutil ls -limit=5 command to obtain the bucket list. 
    obsutil ls -limit=5
Start at 2024-09-29 07:58:46.0506904 +0000 UTC

Bucket                        CreationDate                  Location         BucketType   
obs://bucket001               2018-09-03T01:53:02Z          example          OBJECT   

obs://bucket002               2018-11-01T01:40:01Z          example          OBJECT      

obs://bucket003               2018-10-25T11:45:45Z          example          OBJECT       

obs://bucket004               2018-10-26T02:33:09Z          example          OBJECT      

obs://bucket005               2018-10-26T02:34:50Z          example          OBJECT      
         
Bucket number : 5

Parameter Description

Parameter

Optional or Mandatory

Description

s

Optional (additional parameter)

Displays simplified query result.

NOTE:

In the simplified format, the returned result contains only the bucket name.

sc

Optional (additional parameter)

Queries the storage classes of the buckets when listing buckets.

j

Optional (additional parameter). It must be used together with sc.

The maximum number of concurrent tasks for querying the bucket storage class. The default value is the value of defaultJobs in the configuration file.

NOTE:

The value is ensured to be greater than or equal to 1.

du

Optional (additional parameter)

Quickly returns the total size of listed objects, without displaying detailed object information. This parameter can be used together with other parameters.

NOTE:

This parameter takes effect only on listing objects, but not on listing buckets.

fs

Optional (additional parameter)

Whether the method of listing parallel file systems is applied. If you are listing parallel file systems, you are recommended to add this parameter.

CAUTION:
  • With this method, the listing time required varies largely depending on the directory structures.
  • After this parameter is enabled, marker and limit will be ignored. Then, the size of the bucket, parallel file system, or directory will be calculated.
  • This parameter is only supported by obsutil 5.5.12 and later.

limit

Optional (additional parameter)

The maximum number of buckets that can be queried. If the value is less than 0, all buckets are listed. If it is left blank, a maximum of 1000 buckets can be listed by default.

format

Optional (additional parameter)

Prints a listing result in the user-defined format. Currently, the value can only be default, indicating that the listing result is displayed in one row.

config

Optional (additional parameter)

The user-defined configuration file for executing the current command. To learn the parameters that can be configured in this file, see

Configuration Parameters.

e

Optional (additional parameter)

The endpoint

i

Optional (additional parameter)

The user's AK

k

Optional (additional parameter)

The user's SK

t

Optional (additional parameter)

The user's security token

In a bucket listing result, BucketType indicates the bucket type. OBJECT indicates an object storage bucket, while POSIX indicates a parallel file system.

Parent Topic: Bucket Management