"StartAfter" parameter equivalent in Google Cloud Storage in listing objects

Question

I'm quite new to GCP, and now struggling to list out files after a given key.

In AWS, we can provide an additional parameter StartAfter to the list_objects_v2() boto3 call for S3 client. Then, it will start providing files starting from that particular key.

kwargs["StartAfter"] = start_after_file
response = self._storage_client.list_objects_v2(
                    Bucket=self._bucket_name,
                    Prefix=prefix,
                    **kwargs
                )

I need to do the same in GCP, using the Google Cloud Storage (in Python). I'm going to use list_blobs() in Storage Client class, but I can't find any way to do this.

prefix parameter won't help since it will only return the files with that prefix.

Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

According to the documentation for this library, there is no method to achieve this directly, you would need to filter the response in your code.

Nevertheless, you can open a feature request for this to be revised, or you can contact the team responsible for the library over at their GitHub

Hope you find this useful.