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id: google-cloud-storage-transfer
version: "1.21.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-storage-transfer — Google Cloud Storage Transfer API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

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

## Description

Python Client for Storage Transfer
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`Storage Transfer`_: Transfers data from external data sources to a Google Cloud Storage bucket
or between Google Cloud Storage buckets.

- `Client Library Documentation`_
- `Product Documentation`_

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   :target: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-storage-transfer/
.. _Storage Transfer: https://cloud.google.com/storage-transfer/
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/storagetransfer/latest/summary_overview
.. _Product Documentation:  https://cloud.google.com/storage-transfer/

Quick Start
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In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. `Select or create a Cloud Platform...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Python client library for Google Cloud Storage Transfer, enabling programmatic data transfers to and from Google Cloud Storage buckets using the Google Cloud API.

Verdict: Production-ready Google Cloud client library with active maintenance, permissive licensing, and no known vulnerabilities. Suitable for applications needing programmatic GCS data transfer orchestration. Requires Python 3.10+ and proper GCP authentication setup.

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