gcloud-aio-storage
Python Client for Google Cloud Storage
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Yes. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and uses a permissive MIT license. It's well-positioned in the top 1000 PyPI packages by download volume. Install it if you need async or threadsafe access to Google Cloud Storage in Python 3.10+; otherwise, use the synchronous gcloud-rest-storage variant if you don't need async.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.10 or later; asyncio event loop must be running to use async methods.
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution.
- Active maintenance with a recent release (169 days ago) and ongoing repository activity.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license is permissive, allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions—suitable for most projects without legal concerns.
last release 2026-02-26 (169 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-13 · 348 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 46,983,440 downloads/mo, #606 on PyPI
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pip install gcloud-aio-storage
import asyncio
from gcloud.aio.storage import Storage
async def example():
async with Storage() as storage:
bucket = storage.bucket('my-bucket')
# Use bucket methods for async operations- Specific GCS operations supported (list, download, upload, delete, metadata) and their async/threadsafe behavior
- Authentication flow and whether gcloud-aio-auth is automatically configured or requires explicit setup
- Performance characteristics compared to synchronous GCS clients
- Thread safety guarantees and concurrency limits for the threadsafe variant
What it is and what it does
gcloud-aio-storage is an asyncio-based Python client for Google Cloud Storage that lets you interact with GCS buckets and objects without blocking your event loop. It's built on top of gcloud-aio-auth for credential handling and uses aiofiles for non-blocking file I/O, making it suitable for applications that need to handle many concurrent GCS operations—web services, data pipelines, or any async Python application.
The package supports both asyncio and threadsafe modes, depending on your concurrency model. It depends on rsa and pyasn1-modules for cryptographic operations related to authentication. The codebase is shared between gcloud-aio-storage (asyncio) and gcloud-rest-storage (synchronous REST variant), and it's actively maintained with support for Python 3.10 through 3.14.
Use it for
- Async web services that need to upload or download files from GCS without blocking request handlers
- Data processing pipelines that fetch multiple objects concurrently from GCS buckets
- Microservices using asyncio frameworks (FastAPI, aiohttp) that require non-blocking cloud storage access
- Batch operations that list and process many GCS objects in parallel
- Applications requiring threadsafe GCS access from multiple threads without async/await
Worth the install?
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Yes.
The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and uses a permissive MIT license. It's well-positioned in the top 1000 PyPI packages by download volume. Install it if you need async or threadsafe access to Google Cloud Storage in Python 3.10+; otherwise, use the synchronous gcloud-rest-storage variant if you don't need async.
Install
gcloud-aio-storage on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with a recent release (169 days ago) and ongoing repository activity. Four runtime dependencies are all well-established packages in the Python ecosystem.
Requires Python 3.10 or later; asyncio event loop must be running to use async methods.
License in practice
MIT license is permissive, allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions—suitable for most projects without legal concerns.
Quickstart
pip install gcloud-aio-storage
import asyncio
from gcloud.aio.storage import Storage
async def example():
async with Storage() as storage:
bucket = storage.bucket('my-bucket')
# Use bucket methods for async operationsVerify before relying
- Specific GCS operations supported (list, download, upload, delete, metadata) and their async/threadsafe behavior
- Authentication flow and whether gcloud-aio-auth is automatically configured or requires explicit setup
- Performance characteristics compared to synchronous GCS clients
- Thread safety guarantees and concurrency limits for the threadsafe variant
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release <4.0,>=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 4 packagesaiofilesgcloud-aio-authpyasn1-modulesrsa |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 169 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 46,983,440 / month, #606 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Topic :: Internet |
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