Objects: get

Retrieves an object or its metadata.

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The authenticated user must have READER permissions on the object. To retrieve the acl property, the authenticated user must have OWNER permissions on the object.

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/bucket/o/object

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Path parameters
bucket	string	Name of the bucket in which the object resides.
object	string	Name of the object. For information about how to URL encode object names to be path safe, see Encoding URI Path Parts.
Optional query parameters
generation	long	If present, selects a specific revision of this object (as opposed to the latest version, the default).
ifGenerationMatch	long	Makes the operation conditional on whether the object's generation matches the given value.
ifGenerationNotMatch	long	Makes the operation conditional on whether the object's generation does not match the given value.
ifMetagenerationMatch	long	Makes the operation conditional on whether the object's current metageneration matches the given value.
ifMetagenerationNotMatch	long	Makes the operation conditional on whether the object'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 the owner, acl property.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

By default, this responds with an object resource in the response body. If you provide the URL parameter alt=media, then it will respond with the object data in the response body.