This page contains information about getting started with the Cloud Storage API using the Google APIs Client Library for Python. In addition, you may be interested in the following documentation:

• Browse the PyDoc reference for the Cloud Storage API .
• Read the Developer's guide for the Google APIs Client Library for Python .
• Interact with this API in your browser using the APIs Explorer for the Cloud Storage API .

System requirements

• Operating systems :
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows

  Note : This library is pure Python, so other operating systems with Python support may work as well.

• The latest version of Python 2 .
• Python package installation manager : Setuptools or pip .

Manual Installation

To install the library and all of its dependencies, open a terminal and do one of the following:

• Use the easy_install tool included in the setuptools package:

  $ easy_install --upgrade google-api-python-client

• Use the pip tool:

  $ pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

Depending on your system, you may need to prepend those commands with sudo .

App Engine

Because Google App Engine requires that all of the source files for a library must be present in your App Engine project, there is a special installation procedure for App Engine. To install the library and all of its dependencies in an App Engine project, download the file named google-api-python-client-gae- N.M .zip from the list of downloads , where N.M is the version number of the latest release. Unzip that file into your project. For example:

$ cd myproject
$ unzip google-api-python-client-gae-1.1.zip