How to speed up printing blob names in large blob container?

[pathumd]

Recently, I've been working on a Python script that prints a blob's name if it matches a keyword specified by the user. There are several blob containers in the storage account.

Everything seems to work fine, except for one blob container. This container contains roughly 1,100,000 blobs and it takes my Python script approximately 23 minutes to scan through all the blobs and check for a match.
I am fairly new to working with Azure in Python, and I was wondering if there is any possible way to speed up the process of printing blob names in a blob container.

The following code is how I am currently printing out the blob names:

`next_marker = None
 while True:
   generator = container_client.list_blobs(marker=next_marker)
 
   for item in generator:
     if search_keyword in item.name:
       print("Container: {0}, Blob: {1}\n".format(container_client.container_name, item.name))
     
   if not next_marker:
     break
   next_marker = generator.next_marker`

[ghost]

Thank you for your feedback. This has been routed to the support team for assistance.

[vincenttran-msft]

Hi @pathumd Pathum, thanks for your inquiry. This seems to be a duplicate ask similar to this GitHub issue: Listing blobs names is very slow (#19755)

Rest-assured, our team has been made aware of this scenario and it is on our radar for future feature work to be completed. Unfortunately, I do not have a good time estimate for when this feature will be completed, as we do have some other higher priority work that needs to be completed.

With that being said, I will mark this as closed for now and feel free to post your specific scenario as a follow-up to the aforementioned thread so that we can better track your request all in one place, but you may also re-open this issue if you find that your issue is in fact not a duplicate request.

Thanks!