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id: google-cloud-storage
version: "3.13.1"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

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

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

## Install

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

## Description

Python Client for Cloud Storage
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`Google Cloud Storage`_ is a managed service for storing unstructured data. Cloud Storage
allows world-wide storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time. You can use
Cloud Storage for a range of scenarios including serving website content, storing data
for archival and disaster recovery, or distributing large data objects to users via direct download.

**NOTE**: `3.0 Major Version Notes`_ are available. Feedback welcome.

A comprehensive list of changes in each version may be found in the `CHANGELOG`_.

- `Product Documentation`_
- `Client Library Documentation`_
- `github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python`_

Certain control plane and long-running operations for Cloud Storage (including Folder
and Managed Folder operations) are supported via the `Storage Control Client`_.
The `Storage Control API`_ creates one space to perform metadata-specific, control plane,
and long-running operations apart from the Storage API.

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older
Google APIs Client Libraries, in `Client Libraries Explained`_.

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## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Python client library for Google Cloud Storage, enabling programmatic access to store, retrieve, and manage unstructured data in Google's managed cloud storage service.

Verdict: Production-stable, actively maintained Google Cloud client library with low install friction and no known vulnerabilities. Permissive Apache-2.0 license and support for current Python versions (3.10+) make it suitable for production workloads. Primary consideration is the authentication setup requirement outside the package itself.

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