Get All Items From DynamoDB Table with TypeScript

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I need to get a CSV file with all the coupon codes stored in a DynamoDB table.

import { Key } from "aws-sdk/clients/dynamodb"
import fs from "fs"

import { tableName } from "../src/shared/db/tableName"
import { documentClient } from "../src/shared/db"

const getAllAppSumoCodeIds = async () => {
  const ids: string[] = []

  const recursiveProcess = async (lastEvaluatedKey?: Key) => {
    const { Items = [], LastEvaluatedKey } = await documentClient
      .scan({
        TableName: tableName.appSumoCodes,
        ExclusiveStartKey: lastEvaluatedKey,
        ExpressionAttributeNames: {
          "#id": "id",
        },
        ProjectionExpression: "#id",
      })
      .promise()

    ids.push(...Items.map((item) => item.id))

    if (LastEvaluatedKey) {
      await recursiveProcess(LastEvaluatedKey)
    }
  }

  await recursiveProcess()

  return ids
}

We will use the scan method to get all the items from the table. But we can't get everything in one go. The method returns a paginated result.

We will use recursion instead of a loop to run the scan method until it doesn't return LastEvaluatedKey.

We only need to pass the table name and last evaluated key to the scan method.

But since I only need an id, I'll also set ExpressionAttributeNames and ProjectionExpression.

Now we can set AWS environment variables and run the file with ts-node.