Buckets: get

Returns metadata for the specified bucket. Try it now.

The authenticated user must have sufficient permission to use this method.

Request

HTTP request

GET https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/bucket

In addition to standard query parameters, the following query parameters apply to this method.

To see an example of how to include query parameters in a request, see the JSON API Overview page.

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
bucket string Name of a bucket.
Optional query parameters
ifMetagenerationMatch long Makes the return of the bucket metadata conditional on whether the bucket's current metageneration matches the given value.
ifMetagenerationNotMatch long Makes the return of the bucket metadata conditional on whether the bucket's current metageneration does not match the given value.
projection string Set of properties to return. Defaults to noAcl.

Acceptable values are:
  • full: Include all properties.
  • noAcl: Omit owner, acl, and defaultObjectAcl properties.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a bucket resource in the response body.

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