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Moving files within Google Cloud Storage using Python
schedule Mar 5, 2023
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Tags Cloud Computing
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Prerequisites
To follow along with this guide, please make sure to have:
created a service account and downloaded the private key (JSON file) for authentication (please check out my detailed guide)
installed the Python client library for Google Cloud Storage:
pip install --upgrade google-cloud-storage
Moving files within Google Cloud Storage
There is no method to directly move a file within Google Cloud Storage (GCS). Instead, we can emulate the action of moving a file by copying the file into the desired location and then deleting the original file.
For example, suppose we have a file called cat.png
in GCS and we wish to move this file into a new location under a folder called my_folder
. Here's the code to achieve this:
from google.cloud import storage
# Authenticate ourselves using the private key of the service accountpath_to_private_key = './gcs-project-354207-099ef6796af6.json'client = storage.Client.from_service_account_json(json_credentials_path=path_to_private_key)
bucket = storage.Bucket(client, 'example-bucket-skytowner')# The current fileblob_old = bucket.blob('cat.png')# Copy the current file into a new locationblob_new = bucket.copy_blob(blob_old, bucket, new_name='new_folder/cat.png')# Delete the old fileblob_old.delete()
Here, if the new_folder
folder does not yet exist on GCS, it will be created for you.
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