How to Install `google-cloud-storage` in Python

v3.10.1 General Purpose Python >=3.10 Apache 2.0

Google Cloud Storage API client library

Install pip install google-cloud-storage

What is google-cloud-storage?

Google Cloud Storage API client library

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.

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

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

Documentation → PyPI page → Author: Google LLC

Quick Start

Minimal example to get started with google-cloud-storage:

import google.cloud.storage

print(google.cloud.storage.__version__)

Installation

pip (standard)

pip install google-cloud-storage

Virtual environment (recommended)

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install google-cloud-storage

pip3

pip3 install google-cloud-storage

conda

conda install -c conda-forge google-cloud-storage

Poetry

poetry add google-cloud-storage

Dependencies

Installing google-cloud-storage will also install these packages:

google-auth google-api-core google-cloud-core google-resumable-media requests google-crc32c

Verify the Installation

After installing, confirm the package is available:

python -c "import google.cloud.storage; print(google.cloud.storage.__version__)"

If this prints a version number, installation succeeded. If you see a ModuleNotFoundError, see the errors section below.

Installation Errors

Common errors when installing google-cloud-storage with pip.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google.cloud.storage'

Cause: The package is not installed in the current Python environment.

Fix: Run pip install google-cloud-storage. If using a virtual environment, ensure it is activated first.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google.cloud.storage' (installed but still failing)

Cause: pip installed the package into a different Python than the one running your script.

Fix: Use python -m pip install google-cloud-storage to install into the interpreter you are running.

ImportError: cannot import name 'X' from 'google.cloud.storage'

Cause: The function or class does not exist in the installed version.

Fix: Check the version with pip show google-cloud-storage and upgrade with pip install --upgrade google-cloud-storage.

pip: command not found

Cause: pip is not in PATH or Python was not added to PATH during installation.

Fix: Try python -m pip install google-cloud-storage. On macOS/Linux try pip3.

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Cause: No write access to the system Python package directory.

Fix: Use a virtual environment, or add --user: pip install --user google-cloud-storage

SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

Cause: pip cannot verify PyPI's SSL certificate — common behind corporate proxies.

Fix: Try: pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org google-cloud-storage

Recent Releases

Version	Released
`3.10.1` latest	2026-03-23
`3.10.0`	2026-03-18
`3.9.0`	2026-02-02
`3.8.0`	2026-01-14
`3.7.0`	2025-12-09

Full release history on PyPI →

Manage google-cloud-storage

Upgrade to latest version

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-storage

Install a specific version

pip install google-cloud-storage==3.10.1

Uninstall

pip uninstall google-cloud-storage

Check what is installed

pip show google-cloud-storage

Last updated: 2026-04-11 • Data from PyPI

How to Install google-cloud-storage in Python