title: Download specific folder and all of its files recursively from S3 bitbucket using boto
body: <p>I know how to download files recursively using aws cli</p>
  
  <pre><code>aws s3 cp {s3Directory} {localDirectory} --recursive
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But i want to use Python Boto and below is my code. I want to download folders and all of its files ('Daily/2017/02/15/') from bucket 'news-live'. When i execute below command, all folders created but there is no file downloaded.</p>
  
  <pre><code>def main():
  DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH = "/Users/test/"
  BUCKET_NAME = 'news-live'
  conn  = boto.connect_s3(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY)
  bucket = conn.get_bucket(BUCKET_NAME)
  
  #goto through the list of files
  bucket_list = bucket.list('Daily/2017/02/15/')
  
  for l in bucket_list:
      key_string = str(l.key)
      print("bucket key", l.key)
      s3_path = DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH + key_string
      try:
          print ("Current File is ", s3_path)
          l.get_contents_to_filename(s3_path)
      except (OSError,S3ResponseError) as e:
          pass
          # check if the file has been downloaded locally  
          if not os.path.exists(s3_path):
              try:
                  os.makedirs(s3_path)
              except OSError as exc:
                  # let guard againts race conditions
                  import errno
                  if exc.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                      raise
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't know how to get this work.</p>