SecretsManager / Client / get_secret_value
get_secret_value#
- SecretsManager.Client.get_secret_value(**kwargs)#
Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields
SecretString
orSecretBinary
from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains content.To retrieve the values for a group of secrets, call BatchGetSecretValue.
We recommend that you cache your secret values by using client-side caching. Caching secrets improves speed and reduces your costs. For more information, see Cache secrets for your applications.
To retrieve the previous version of a secret, use
VersionStage
and specify AWSPREVIOUS. To revert to the previous version of a secret, call UpdateSecretVersionStage.Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
. If the secret is encrypted using a customer-managed key instead of the Amazon Web Services managed keyaws/secretsmanager
, then you also needkms:Decrypt
permissions for that key. For more information, see IAM policy actions for Secrets Manager and Authentication and access control in Secrets Manager.See also: AWS API Documentation
Request Syntax
response = client.get_secret_value( SecretId='string', VersionId='string', VersionStage='string' )
- Parameters:
SecretId (string) –
[REQUIRED]
The ARN or name of the secret to retrieve.
For an ARN, we recommend that you specify a complete ARN rather than a partial ARN. See Finding a secret from a partial ARN.
VersionId (string) –
The unique identifier of the version of the secret to retrieve. If you include both this parameter and
VersionStage
, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don’t specify either aVersionStage
orVersionId
, then Secrets Manager returns theAWSCURRENT
version.This value is typically a UUID-type value with 32 hexadecimal digits.
VersionStage (string) –
The staging label of the version of the secret to retrieve.
Secrets Manager uses staging labels to keep track of different versions during the rotation process. If you include both this parameter and
VersionId
, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don’t specify either aVersionStage
orVersionId
, Secrets Manager returns theAWSCURRENT
version.
- Return type:
dict
- Returns:
Response Syntax
{ 'ARN': 'string', 'Name': 'string', 'VersionId': 'string', 'SecretBinary': b'bytes', 'SecretString': 'string', 'VersionStages': [ 'string', ], 'CreatedDate': datetime(2015, 1, 1) }
Response Structure
(dict) –
ARN (string) –
The ARN of the secret.
Name (string) –
The friendly name of the secret.
VersionId (string) –
The unique identifier of this version of the secret.
SecretBinary (bytes) –
The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as binary data in the form of a byte array. The response parameter represents the binary data as a base64-encoded string.
If the secret was created by using the Secrets Manager console, or if the secret value was originally provided as a string, then this field is omitted. The secret value appears in
SecretString
instead.SecretString (string) –
The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as a string or through the Secrets Manager console.
If this secret was created by using the console, then Secrets Manager stores the information as a JSON structure of key/value pairs.
VersionStages (list) –
A list of all of the staging labels currently attached to this version of the secret.
(string) –
CreatedDate (datetime) –
The date and time that this version of the secret was created. If you don’t specify which version in
VersionId
orVersionStage
, then Secrets Manager uses theAWSCURRENT
version.
Exceptions
SecretsManager.Client.exceptions.ResourceNotFoundException
SecretsManager.Client.exceptions.InvalidParameterException
SecretsManager.Client.exceptions.InvalidRequestException
SecretsManager.Client.exceptions.DecryptionFailure
SecretsManager.Client.exceptions.InternalServiceError
Examples
The following example shows how to retrieve a secret string value.
response = client.get_secret_value( SecretId='MyTestDatabaseSecret', ) print(response)
Expected Output:
{ 'ARN': 'arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3', 'CreatedDate': 1523477145.713, 'Name': 'MyTestDatabaseSecret', 'SecretString': '{\n "username":"david",\n "password":"EXAMPLE-PASSWORD"\n}\n', 'VersionId': 'EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1', 'VersionStages': [ 'AWSPREVIOUS', ], 'ResponseMetadata': { '...': '...', }, }