Python Client for Google Cloud Storage
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    Python idiomatic client for `Google Cloud Storage`_

.. _Google Cloud Storage: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs

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-  `Documentation`_

.. _Documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/stable/storage-client.html

Quick Start
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.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install --upgrade google-cloud-storage

Authentication
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With ``google-cloud-python`` we try to make authentication as painless as
possible. Check out the `Authentication section`_ in our documentation to
learn more. You may also find the `authentication document`_ shared by all
the ``google-cloud-*`` libraries to be helpful.

.. _Authentication section: http://google-cloud-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/google-cloud-auth.html
.. _authentication document: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-common/tree/master/authentication

Using the API
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Google `Cloud Storage`_ (`Storage API docs`_) allows you to store data on
Google infrastructure with very high reliability, performance and
availability, and can be used to distribute large data objects to users
via direct download.

.. _Cloud Storage: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs
.. _Storage API docs: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1

See the ``google-cloud-python`` API `storage documentation`_ to learn how to
connect to Cloud Storage using this Client Library.

.. _storage documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/stable/storage-client.html

You need to create a Google Cloud Storage bucket to use this client library.
Follow along with the `official Google Cloud Storage documentation`_ to learn
how to create a bucket.

.. _official Google Cloud Storage documentation: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/cloud-console#_creatingbuckets

.. code:: python

    from google.cloud import storage
    client = storage.Client()
    bucket = client.get_bucket('bucket-id-here')
    # Then do other things...
    blob = bucket.get_blob('remote/path/to/file.txt')
    print(blob.download_as_string())
    blob.upload_from_string('New contents!')
    blob2 = bucket.blob('remote/path/storage.txt')
    blob2.upload_from_filename(filename='/local/path.txt')

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