Google Cloud Storage: Node.js Client

Node.js idiomatic client for Cloud Storage.

Cloud Storage allows world-wide storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time. You can use Google 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.

• Cloud Storage Node.js Client API Reference
• Cloud Storage Documentation

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

Table of contents:

• QuickStart
  • Before you begin
  • Installing the client library
  • Using the client library
• Samples
• Versioning
• Contributing
• License

Quickstart

Before you begin

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

   Go to the projects page

2. Enable billing for your project.

   Enable billing

3. Enable the Google Cloud Storage API.

   Enable the API

4. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install --save @google-cloud/storage

Using the client library

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const Storage = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
const projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';

// Instantiates a client
const storage = Storage({
  projectId: projectId,
});

// The name for the new bucket
const bucketName = 'my-new-bucket';

// Creates the new bucket
storage
  .createBucket(bucketName)
  .then(() => {
    console.log(`Bucket ${bucketName} created.`);
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error('ERROR:', err);
  });

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. The samples' README.md has instructions for running the samples.

Sample	Documentation	Source Code
ACL (Access Control Lists)	documentation	source code
Buckets	documentation	source code
Encryption	documentation	source code
Files	documentation	source code
Requester Pays	documentation	source code

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be General Availability (GA). This means it is stable; the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible ways unless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or with an extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests against GA libraries are addressed with the highest priority.

Please note that the auto-generated portions of the GA libraries (the ones in modules such as v1 or v2) are considered to be of Beta quality, even if the libraries that wrap them are GA.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE