How do I set up a Google Cloud bucket?

1. Sign up for a Google Service Account

To use Google Cloud buckets, you will first need a Google service account. To sign up, go to the Google Cloud page and click the "Get started for free" button.

2. Locate your credentials

To locate the credentials for your account, you will need to:

While creating a new Google service account, set role as "Storage Object Creator"
Select "JSON" as the key format file
Download to your computer and take note of the JSON Key File (YOUR_JSON_KEY_FILE)
Proceed to the API Library
Search for "Google Cloud Storage JSON API" and enable the feature
Wait approximately ten minutes for the action to be processed by the Google network

Now you can set up the storage.objects.create and storage.objects.delete permissions. The latter is optional and only required if you intend to overwrite existing paths.

3. Create a bucket

To create a Google Cloud Storage bucket, use the Google Cloud Console online, or use a local client that supports the Google Cloud API. We recommend any of the following:

OSX: Transmit using the Interoperability API provided by Google
Windows: CloudBerry Explorer
Linux: Cloud SDK

Make sure to take note of your Bucket Name (YOUR_GOOGLE_STORAGE_BUCKET) and Google Project ID(YOUR_GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID) after you create the bucket.

4. Use the bucket with Transloadit Templates

Assuming you have signed up for Transloadit, proceed to Template Credentials. Then under "Adding new Credentials", select "Google Cloud Storage" and input the relevant information from the earlier steps.

The following is an example of a simple Template for testing the connection to your Google Cloud Storage account.

{
  "steps": {
    ":original": {
      "robot": "/upload/handle"
    },
    "exported": {
      "robot": "/google/store",
      "use": ":original",
      "credentials": "YOUR_GOOGLE_CLOUD_CREDENTIALS"
    }
  }
}

To see if it works, in the created Template's testing section, click "Toggle Testing Area" and upload an item.

For more details about Templates and security, see our Template documentation.
For more information on saving to Google Cloud, e.g., how to customize file names, see the 🤖/google/store documentation.

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