Export Amazon SES Suppression List

I needed to export my Simple Email Service (SES) suppression list from time to time to manually confirm that the unsubscribe/spam/bounce notifications were working and to compare with my own suppression lists.

The current (as of 5/24/2022) version of the AWS console does not provide an export option for the Suppression List, so I made this simple script to export using the AWS CLI client. I decided to publish since there were a others who were seeking to do the same. Use at your own risk.

Tested on OS X 11.6 (Big Sur) and steps will be

Dependencies:

• AWS CLI Client to query the api
• Dasel for parsing the JSON responses in the terminal

Usage:

Install the dependencies and make sure to configure and authorize the AWS client using aws configure and entering your keys.

Create a folder and put the fetch.sh script in the folder. Navigate to the folder in your terminal and run bash fetch.sh , zsh fetch.sh or whatever terminal you prefer. It might not work on other terminals.

The script operates like so:

1. Create an empty CSV file named list.csv
2. Query the API for the suppression list
3. Append to the results to the CSV file
4. Check if a NextToken is present indicating that there are more results
5. If a token is present in the response, repeat steps 2-4.