list all ARNs in an account - feature proposal

[mikedlr]

I'd like to simply get a list of all resources in my account, giving their ARN. As a JSON query this is non trivial and probably impossible to get right since AWS uses many different ways of giving the ARN (example, sometimes it's just a parameter on the resource ( ARN: "value"), sometimes it's a differently named parameter ( "DBClusterARN") and sometimes

I have a workaround; change into the json directory and run

cat *.json | tr '"' '\n' | grep '^arn:aws' | sort |  sed 's/:\*$//'  | uniq 

I don't see this as fully reliable though, for example if there are references to ARNs in a different account they will turn up which may or may not be a good thing, if there are references to old ARNs that no longer exist, the same.

I think the fix is to have this as an option to aws_list_all. This could start by gathering the values of all parameters which match ^(ARN|[^ ]*Arn) and then printing out the unique values but if AWS changed something might need updated.

[JohannesEbke]

There is a similar heuristic trying to determine the ID in https://github.com/JohannesEbke/aws_list_all/blob/master/aws_list_all/query.py#L277 . Pulling that out into a separate function, adding an ARN heuristic and showing both ARN and ID would be great.