This application will extract the content of a DynamoDB table into JSON output.
By default the program use the configuration and credentials provided by your ~/.aws/ files (come with aws-cli install).
If you don't have aws-cli setup, you can update config.json with your AWS credentials and region.
npm install
typically, to use you'd run:
npm run extract -- -t your_dynamo_table_name -f output.json
Use -d to describe the table prior so you can have an idea of the number of rows you are going to export
npm run extract -- -t your_dynamo_table_name -d
to get some information about the table.
Full syntax is:
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-t, --table [tablename] table you want to output
-e, --endpoint [url] Endpoint URL, can be used to dump from local DynamoDB
-f, --file [file] Name of the file to be created
-d, --describe
-p, --profile [profile] Use profile from your credentials file
-ec --envcreds Load AWS Credentials using AWS Credential Provider Chain