temporary links in Spaces

Posted on July 20, 2024

S3 has a feature that let’s you create short term access to files/folders DO Spaces do also support this feature, but i could not find in the documentation in how to do this via API. is there any way that this can be done externally (preparedly via php or python)?

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Bobby Iliev

July 20, 2024

Hey 👋

Yes, DigitalOcean Spaces, does support the creation of temporary (or pre-signed) URLs for files. This feature allows you to generate time-limited access links to private objects in your Space.

Here is a step by step documentation guide on how to do that:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/glossary/pre-signed-url

The guide above, also includes a Python example:

import boto3
from botocore.client import Config

# Initialize a session using DigitalOcean Spaces
session = boto3.session.Session()
client = session.client('s3',
                        region_name='nyc3',
                        endpoint_url='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com',
                        aws_access_key_id='YOUR_ACCESS_KEY',
                        aws_secret_access_key='YOUR_SECRET_KEY')

# Generate pre-signed URL with query parameters
url = client.generate_presigned_url(ClientMethod='get_object',
                                    Params={
                                        'Bucket': 'your-space-name',
                                        'Key': 'your-object-key',
                                        'ResponseContentType': 'text/plain',
                                        # You can add more parameters if needed, such as 'ResponseContentDisposition': 'attachment; filename=filename.txt'
                                    },
                                    ExpiresIn=3600)