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Imap Attachment to Amazon S3¶

The ImapAttachmentToS3Operator transfers an email attachment via IMAP protocol from an email server to an Amazon S3 Bucket.

Prerequisite Tasks¶

To use these operators, you must do a few things:

Create necessary resources using AWS Console or AWS CLI.
Install API libraries via pip.
pip install 'apache-airflow[amazon]'
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Setup Connection.

Operators¶

Imap Attachment To Amazon S3 transfer operator¶

To save an email attachment via IMAP protocol from an email server to an Amazon S3 Bucket you can use ImapAttachmentToS3Operator

tests/system/amazon/aws/example_imap_attachment_to_s3.py[source]

task_transfer_imap_attachment_to_s3 = ImapAttachmentToS3Operator(
    task_id="transfer_imap_attachment_to_s3",
    imap_attachment_name=imap_attachment_name,
    s3_bucket=s3_bucket,
    s3_key=s3_key,
    imap_mail_folder=imap_mail_folder,
    imap_mail_filter="All",
)

Reference¶

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