Which method you choose to access public data depends on how you want to work with the data. You can access public data with the Google Developers Console, gsutil , or with a general (non-console) storage link. The Developers Console and gsutil require you to authenticate with Google. You can authenticate with any Google account; the account does not have to be associated with the project that contains the public data, nor does it need to be signed up for the Google Cloud Storage service. By contrast, accessing public data with a general storage link does not require authentication. This method is suited for general purpose links to publicly shared data, for example, for use in a web page.

Accessing public data (authentication required)

Accessing public data (no authentication required)

If an object is shared publicly, then you can access that object as:

http://storage.googleapis.com/<bucket-name>/path/to/object

For example, from the uspto-pair bucket, you can link to the publicly shared object, applications/05900002.zip , with the link:

http://storage.googleapis.com/uspto-pair/applications/05900002.zip

This link does not involve the Google Developers Console nor authentication, and is suitable, for example, as a link in a web page.

For information about how to publicly share an object with the Google Developers Console, see Sharing Your Data Publicly . For information about how to publicly share an object using gsutil , see the acl command.

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