Azure PowerShell Download blob contents from container - azure

Question

I'm trying to download sme blob files from an azure storage account.
There are a mix of other containers and blockblobs in the parent container, I need to download just the blockblobs and not the other containers, I can't find a way of seperating them out, also I need to download some blobs from a conatiner within a container.
My code will download all the contents in the parent blob, including all sub containers.
$sub = "MySub"
$staccname = "straccname1234"
$key = "sdcsecurekeythinghere"
$ctx = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $staccname `
-StorageAccountKey $key
$cont = "data\download\files.001" ##the container includes other cntainers and subcontainers
$dest = "C:\blb-Downloads"
Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $sub –Default
Set-AzureSubscription -Currentstaccname $staccname -SubscriptionName $sub
Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container $cont -Context $ctx
$blobs = Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container $cont -Context $ctx
$blobs | Get-AzureStorageBlobContent –Destination $dest -Context $ctx
There are approx 75 files in the parent blob and 123 files in data\downloads.

Answer 1

Using the newer Azure PowerShell Az module, you can use Get-AzStorageBlob to list all the block blobs from the container, then use Get-AzStorageBlobContent to download the blobs.
As already shown by #George Wallace, we can use Where-Object or its alias ? to filter block blob types.
Demo:
$resourceGroup = "myResourceGroup"
$storageAccount = "myStorageAccount"
$container = "myContainerName"
$destination = "./blobs"
# Create destination directory if it doesn't exist
if (-not (Test-Path -Path $destination -PathType Container)) {
New-Item -Path $destination -ItemType Directory
}
# Get storage account with container we want to download blobs from
$storageAccount = Get-AzStorageAccount -Name $storageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup
# Get all BlockBlobs from container
$blockBlobs = Get-AzStorageBlob -Container $container -Context $storageAccount.Context
| Where-Object {$_.BlobType -eq "BlockBlob"}
# Download each blob from container into destination directory
$blockBlobs | Get-AzStorageBlobContent -Destination $destination -Force

Answer 2

Can you not just run the following and limit it to BlockBlobs only?
Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container $cont -Context $ctx | ? {$_.BlobType -eq "BlockBlob"}

Answer 3

This works for me
$storageaccountname = "jawadtestsaacc"
$sastoken = ""
$ContainerName = "access"
$Ctx = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storageaccountname -SasToken $sastoken
Get-AzStorageBlob -Container "$ContainerName" -Blob "Az.json" -Context $Ctx | Get-AzStorageBlobContent
or
Get-AzStorageBlobContent -Container "$ContainerName" -Blob "Az.json" -Context $Ctx