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id: google-cloud-storage-control
version: "1.13.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# google-cloud-storage-control — Google Cloud Storage Control API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 17.9M/mo

## What it is and what it does

google-cloud-storage-control is the official Python client for Google Cloud's Storage Control API, a separate control plane for metadata and long-running operations on Cloud Storage. It complements the main Storage API by isolating control-plane tasks—such as managing storage hierarchies, bucket configurations, and asynchronous operations—into a dedicated service, allowing faster API releases and better standardization.

The library wraps gRPC stubs generated from Google's protobuf definitions and provides a Pythonic interface through google-api-core and proto-plus. It handles authentication via google-auth, serialization via protobuf, and RPC transport via grpcio. You instantiate a client, call methods to perform metadata or control operations, and receive responses as protocol buffer messages. The package is production-stable, actively maintained, and supports modern Python versions (3.10 through 3.14).

Use it for:

- Manage hierarchical namespaces and folder structures within Cloud Storage buckets for organizational control.
- Perform long-running operations such as bulk renames or migrations without blocking on the Storage API.
- Configure and retrieve bucket metadata, access controls, and storage policies through the dedicated control plane.
- Automate storage infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management in Python applications.
- Monitor and track asynchronous storage operations initiated through the Storage Control API.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Python client library for Google Cloud Storage Control API, enabling metadata, control plane, and long-running operations on Google Cloud Storage resources.

Yes. This is a production-stable, actively maintained official Google Cloud client library with low install friction, no known vulnerabilities, and permissive licensing. Install it if you need to manage Cloud Storage metadata, control plane operations, or long-running tasks from Python; skip it if you only need basic object read/write operations (use google-cloud-storage instead).

## Install

pip install google-cloud-storage-control
uv add google-cloud-storage-control
poetry add google-cloud-storage-control

## Installing google-cloud-storage-control

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. Actively maintained as of 8 days ago with recent commits. Supports current Python versions (3.10–3.14) and depends on standard Google Cloud libraries (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf, grpc-google-iam-v1).

License in practice: Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive). You may use, modify, and distribute this library freely in commercial and open-source projects, provided you include the license notice.

Quickstart:

pip install google-cloud-storage-control

from google.cloud import storage_control_v1

client = storage_control_v1.StorageControlClient()
# Use client to call Storage Control API methods

Requires Python >= 3.10. Google Cloud credentials must be configured (via GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable or Application Default Credentials).

Verify before relying:

- Specific Storage Control API methods and their signatures beyond the generic client instantiation pattern.
- Whether this library handles all Storage Control operations or only a subset of the full API surface.
- Performance characteristics and rate-limiting behavior for long-running operations.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 17.9M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

google cloud storage control api, gcs metadata operations, cloud storage control plane, google storage management python, gcs long-running operations, cloud storage api client, google cloud storage python sdk, google-cloud, storage-api, grpc-client

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