Use Requester Pays

Overview

This page describes how to enable and disable Requester Pays, as well as how to check to see if Requester Pays is enabled on a bucket.

Required roles

In order to get the required permissions for setting and managing Requester Pays, ask your administrator to grant you the Storage Admin (roles.storage.Admin) role on the project that contains the bucket.

This role contains the permissions required to set and manage Requester Pays. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand the Required permissions section:

Required permissions

• storage.buckets.get
• storage.buckets.update
• resourcemanager.projects.createBillingAssignment
  • This permission is only required if you don't have a billing account to use when disabling Requester Pays. For more information, see Use and access requirements.

You might also be able to get these permissions with other predefined roles or custom roles.

For instructions on granting roles on projects, see Grant or revoke a role.

Set Requester Pays

To enable or disable Requester Pays on a bucket:

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.
   

   Go to Buckets

2. In the list of buckets, find the bucket you want to set and locate the Requester pays column.

   The value in the column indicates the current state of Requester Pays for that bucket.

3. Click the current state of Requester Pays for the bucket.

4. In the window that appears, click Turn on or Turn off, depending on the state you want to set for Requester Pays.

When enabled, a green bubble and On appear in the Requester pays column for the bucket. When disabled, a gray bubble and Off appear in the column.

To learn how to get detailed error information about failed Cloud Storage operations in the Google Cloud console, see Troubleshooting.

Command line

Use the gcloud storage buckets update command with the appropriate flag:

gcloud storage buckets update gs://BUCKET_NAME FLAG

Where:

• BUCKET_NAME is the name of the relevant bucket. For example, my-bucket.

• FLAG is either --requester-pays to enable Requester Pays or --no-requester-pays to disable it.

If successful, the response looks similar to the following example:

Updating gs://my-bucket/...
  Completed 1  

Client libraries

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name) {
  StatusOr<gcs::BucketMetadata> metadata = client.PatchBucket(
      bucket_name,
      gcs::BucketMetadataPatchBuilder().SetBilling(gcs::BucketBilling{true}));
  if (!metadata) throw std::move(metadata).status();

  std::cout << "Billing configuration for bucket " << metadata->name()
            << " is updated. The bucket now";
  if (!metadata->has_billing()) {
    std::cout << " has no billing configuration.\n";
  } else if (metadata->billing().requester_pays) {
    std::cout << " is configured to charge the caller for requests\n";
  } else {
    std::cout << " is configured to charge the project that owns the bucket"
              << " for requests.\n";
  }
}

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& billed_project) {
  StatusOr<gcs::BucketMetadata> metadata = client.PatchBucket(
      bucket_name,
      gcs::BucketMetadataPatchBuilder().SetBilling(gcs::BucketBilling{false}),
      gcs::UserProject(billed_project));
  if (!metadata) throw std::move(metadata).status();

  std::cout << "Billing configuration for bucket " << bucket_name
            << " is updated. The bucket now";
  if (!metadata->has_billing()) {
    std::cout << " has no billing configuration.\n";
  } else if (metadata->billing().requester_pays) {
    std::cout << " is configured to charge the caller for requests\n";
  } else {
    std::cout << " is configured to charge the project that owns the bucket"
              << " for requests.\n";
  }
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

using Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data;
using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;

public class EnableRequesterPaysSample
{
    public Bucket EnableRequesterPays(string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName);
        bucket.Billing ??= new Bucket.BillingData();
        bucket.Billing.RequesterPays = true;
        bucket = storage.UpdateBucket(bucket);
        Console.WriteLine($"Requester pays requests have been enabled for bucket {bucketName}.");
        return bucket;
    }
}

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

using Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data;
using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;

public class DisableRequesterPaysSample
{
    public Bucket DisableRequesterPays(
        string projectId = "your-project-id",
        string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName, new GetBucketOptions
        {
            UserProject = projectId
        });

        bucket.Billing ??= new Bucket.BillingData();
        bucket.Billing.RequesterPays = false;

        bucket = storage.UpdateBucket(bucket, new UpdateBucketOptions
        {
            UserProject = projectId
        });
        Console.WriteLine($"Requester pays disabled for bucket {bucketName}.");
        return bucket;
    }
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// enableRequesterPays sets requester pays flag to true.
func enableRequesterPays(w io.Writer, bucketName string) error {
	// bucketName := "bucket-name"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
	defer cancel()

	bucket := client.Bucket(bucketName)
	bucketAttrsToUpdate := storage.BucketAttrsToUpdate{
		RequesterPays: true,
	}
	if _, err := bucket.Update(ctx, bucketAttrsToUpdate); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).Update: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Requester pays enabled for bucket %v\n", bucketName)
	return nil
}

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// disableRequesterPays sets requester pays flag to false.
func disableRequesterPays(w io.Writer, bucketName string) error {
	// bucketName := "bucket-name"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
	defer cancel()

	bucket := client.Bucket(bucketName)
	bucketAttrsToUpdate := storage.BucketAttrsToUpdate{
		RequesterPays: false,
	}
	if _, err := bucket.Update(ctx, bucketAttrsToUpdate); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).Update: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Requester pays disabled for bucket %v\n", bucketName)
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

import com.google.cloud.storage.Bucket;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class EnableRequesterPays {
  public static void enableRequesterPays(String projectId, String bucketName) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName);
    bucket.toBuilder().setRequesterPays(true).build().update();

    System.out.println("Requester pays enabled for bucket " + bucketName);
  }
}

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

import com.google.cloud.storage.Bucket;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class DisableRequesterPays {
  public static void disableRequesterPays(String projectId, String bucketName) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName, Storage.BucketGetOption.userProject(projectId));
    bucket.toBuilder()
        .setRequesterPays(false)
        .build()
        .update(Storage.BucketTargetOption.userProject(projectId));

    System.out.println("Requester pays disabled for bucket " + bucketName);
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function enableRequesterPays() {
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).enableRequesterPays();

  console.log(
    `Requester-pays requests have been enabled for bucket ${bucketName}`
  );
}

enableRequesterPays().catch(console.error);

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function disableRequesterPays() {
  // Disables requester-pays requests
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).disableRequesterPays();

  console.log(
    `Requester-pays requests have been disabled for bucket ${bucketName}`
  );
}

disableRequesterPays().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Enable a bucket's requesterpays metadata.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 */
function enable_requester_pays(string $bucketName): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $bucket->update([
        'billing' => [
            'requesterPays' => true
        ]
    ]);
    printf('Requester pays has been enabled for %s' . PHP_EOL, $bucketName);
}

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Disable a bucket's requesterpays metadata.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 */
function disable_requester_pays(string $bucketName): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $bucket->update([
        'billing' => [
            'requesterPays' => false
        ]
    ]);
    printf('Requester pays has been disabled for %s' . PHP_EOL, $bucketName);
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

from google.cloud import storage


def enable_requester_pays(bucket_name):
    """Enable a bucket's requesterpays metadata"""
    # bucket_name = "my-bucket"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.requester_pays = True
    bucket.patch()

    print(f"Requester Pays has been enabled for {bucket_name}")

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

from google.cloud import storage


def disable_requester_pays(bucket_name):
    """Disable a bucket's requesterpays metadata"""
    # bucket_name = "my-bucket"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.requester_pays = False
    bucket.patch()

    print(f"Requester Pays has been disabled for {bucket_name}")

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

The following sample enables Requester Pays on a bucket:

def enable_requester_pays bucket_name:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage"

  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name

  bucket.requester_pays = true

  puts "Requester pays has been enabled for #{bucket_name}"
end

The following sample disables Requester Pays on a bucket:

def disable_requester_pays bucket_name:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage"

  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name

  bucket.requester_pays = false

  puts "Requester pays has been disabled for #{bucket_name}"
end

REST APIs

JSON API

1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

2. Create a JSON file that contains the following information:

   {
     "billing": {
       "requesterPays": STATE
     }
   }

   Where STATE is either true or false.

3. Use cURL to call the JSON API with a PATCH Bucket request:

   curl -X PATCH --data-binary @JSON_FILE_NAME \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME?fields=billing"

   Where:

   • JSON_FILE_NAME is the path for the JSON file that you created in Step 2.
   • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the relevant bucket. For example, my-bucket.

XML API

1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

2. Create an XML file that contains the following information:

   <BillingConfiguration>
     <RequesterPays>STATE</RequesterPays>
   </BillingConfiguration>

   Where STATE is either Enabled or Disabled.

3. Use cURL to call the XML API with a PUT Bucket request and billing query string parameter:

   curl -X PUT --data-binary @XML_FILE_NAME \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     "https://storage.googleapis.com/BUCKET_NAME?billing"

   Where:

   • XML_FILE_NAME is the path for the XML file that you created in Step 2.
   • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the relevant bucket. For example, my-bucket.

Check whether Requester Pays is enabled

To check whether Requester Pays is enabled on a bucket:

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.
   

   Go to Buckets

2. In the list of buckets, the Requester Pays status of each bucket is found in the Requester Pays column.

If enabled, the status is green and the word On appears.

Command line

Use the gcloud storage buckets describe command with the --format flag:

gcloud storage buckets describe gs://BUCKET_NAME --format="default(requester_pays)"

Where BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket whose status you want to view. For example, my-bucket.

If successful, the response looks similar to the following example:

requester_pays: true

Client libraries

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& user_project) {
  StatusOr<gcs::BucketMetadata> metadata =
      client.GetBucketMetadata(bucket_name, gcs::UserProject(user_project));
  if (!metadata) throw std::move(metadata).status();

  if (!metadata->has_billing()) {
    std::cout
        << "The bucket " << metadata->name() << " does not have a"
        << " billing configuration. The default applies, i.e., the project"
        << " that owns the bucket pays for the requests.\n";
    return;
  }

  if (metadata->billing().requester_pays) {
    std::cout
        << "The bucket " << metadata->name()
        << " is configured to charge the calling project for the requests.\n";
  } else {
    std::cout << "The bucket " << metadata->name()
              << " is configured to charge the project that owns the bucket "
                 "for the requests.\n";
  }
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;

public class GetRequesterPaysStatusSample
{
    public bool GetRequesterPaysStatus(
        string projectId = "your-project-id",
        string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName, new GetBucketOptions
        {
            UserProject = projectId
        });
        bool requesterPays = bucket.Billing?.RequesterPays ?? false;
        Console.WriteLine($"RequesterPays: {requesterPays}");
        return requesterPays;
    }
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// getRequesterPaysStatus gets requester pays status.
func getRequesterPaysStatus(w io.Writer, bucketName string) error {
	// bucketName := "bucket-name"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
	defer cancel()

	attrs, err := client.Bucket(bucketName).Attrs(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).Attrs: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Is requester pays enabled? %v\n", attrs.RequesterPays)
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import com.google.cloud.storage.Bucket;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageException;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class GetRequesterPaysStatus {
  public static void getRequesterPaysStatus(String projectId, String bucketName)
      throws StorageException {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    Bucket bucket =
        storage.get(bucketName, Storage.BucketGetOption.fields(Storage.BucketField.BILLING));

    System.out.println("Requester pays status : " + bucket.requesterPays());
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function getRequesterPaysStatus() {
  // Gets the requester-pays status of a bucket
  const [metadata] = await storage.bucket(bucketName).getMetadata();

  let status;
  if (metadata && metadata.billing && metadata.billing.requesterPays) {
    status = 'enabled';
  } else {
    status = 'disabled';
  }
  console.log(
    `Requester-pays requests are ${status} for bucket ${bucketName}.`
  );
}

getRequesterPaysStatus().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Get a bucket's requesterpays metadata.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 */
function get_requester_pays_status(string $bucketName): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $bucketInformation = $bucket->info();
    $requesterPaysStatus = $bucketInformation['billing']['requesterPays'];
    if ($requesterPaysStatus) {
        printf('Requester Pays is enabled for %s' . PHP_EOL, $bucketName);
    } else {
        printf('Requester Pays is disabled for %s' . PHP_EOL, $bucketName);
    }
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

from google.cloud import storage


def get_requester_pays_status(bucket_name):
    """Get a bucket's requester pays metadata"""
    # bucket_name = "my-bucket"
    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    requester_pays_status = bucket.requester_pays

    if requester_pays_status:
        print(f"Requester Pays is enabled for {bucket_name}")
    else:
        print(f"Requester Pays is disabled for {bucket_name}")

REST APIs

JSON API

1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

2. Use cURL to call the JSON API with a GET Bucket request:

   curl -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME?fields=billing"

   Where BUCKET_NAME is the name of the relevant bucket. For example, my-bucket.

XML API

1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

2. Use cURL to call the XML API with a GET Bucket request and billing query string parameter:

   curl -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     "https://storage.googleapis.com/BUCKET_NAME?billing"

   Where BUCKET_NAME is the name of the relevant bucket. For example, my-bucket.

Access Requester Pays buckets

The following example shows how to include a billing project so that you can download an object stored in a Requester Pays bucket. Use a similar procedure to perform other requests on the Requester Pays bucket or on objects within it. See Requester Pays access requirements for prerequisite considerations.

Important: Buckets that have Requester Pays disabled still accept requests that include a billing project, and charges are applied to the billing project supplied in the request. Consider any billing implications prior to including a billing project in all of your requests.

Console

Note: If you previously used the Google Cloud console to access a given Requester Pays bucket, you have immediate access to the bucket and can download the object as you normally would. The project you previously specified as the billing project is used for this subsequent access. You can change the project you bill by clicking the Change project button located above the list of objects in the bucket.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.
   

   Go to Buckets

2. In the list of buckets, click the name of the bucket that contains the object you want to download.

3. In the window that appears, use the drop-down menu to select a project for billing.

4. Check the checkbox to confirm you are authorized to use the selected project for billing purposes.

5. Click Save.

6. Download the object as you normally would.

To learn how to get detailed error information about failed Cloud Storage operations in the Google Cloud console, see Troubleshooting.

Command line

Note: The --billing-project flag also sets the project against which quota is charged.

Use the --billing-project flag in your request:

gcloud storage cp gs://BUCKET_NAME/OBJECT_NAME SAVE_TO_LOCATION --billing-project=PROJECT_IDENTIFIER

Where:

• BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket containing the object you are downloading. For example, my-bucket.
• OBJECT_NAME is the name of object you are downloading. For example, pets/dog.png.
• SAVE_TO_LOCATION is the local path where you are saving your object. For example, Desktop/Images.
• PROJECT_IDENTIFIER is the ID or number of the project to be billed. For example, my-project.

Client libraries

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& object_name, std::string const& billed_project) {
  gcs::ObjectReadStream stream = client.ReadObject(
      bucket_name, object_name, gcs::UserProject(billed_project));

  std::string line;
  while (std::getline(stream, line, '\n')) {
    std::cout << line << "\n";
  }
  if (stream.bad()) throw google::cloud::Status(stream.status());
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;
using System.IO;

public class DownloadFileRequesterPaysSample
{
    public void DownloadFileRequesterPays(
        string projectId = "your-project-id",
        string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name",
        string objectName = "my-file-name",
        string localPath = "my-local-path/my-file-name")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        using var outputFile = File.OpenWrite(localPath);
        storage.DownloadObject(bucketName, objectName, outputFile, new DownloadObjectOptions
        {
            UserProject = projectId
        });
        Console.WriteLine($"Downloaded {objectName} to {localPath} paid by {projectId}.");
    }
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	"time"

	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// downloadUsingRequesterPays downloads an object using billing project.
func downloadUsingRequesterPays(w io.Writer, bucket, object, billingProjectID string) error {
	// bucket := "bucket-name"
	// object := "object-name"
	// billingProjectID := "billing_account_id"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	b := client.Bucket(bucket).UserProject(billingProjectID)
	src := b.Object(object)

	// Open local file.
	f, err := os.OpenFile("notes.txt", os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0755)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("os.OpenFile: %w", err)
	}

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*50)
	defer cancel()

	rc, err := src.NewReader(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Object(%q).NewReader: %w", object, err)
	}
	if _, err := io.Copy(f, rc); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("io.Copy: %w", err)
	}
	if err := rc.Close(); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Reader.Close: %w", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Downloaded using %v as billing project.\n", billingProjectID)
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import com.google.cloud.storage.Blob;
import com.google.cloud.storage.BlobId;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;
import java.nio.file.Path;

public class DownloadRequesterPaysObject {
  public static void downloadRequesterPaysObject(
      String projectId, String bucketName, String objectName, Path destFilePath) {
    // The project ID to bill
    // String projectId = "my-billable-project-id";

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    // The ID of your GCS object
    // String objectName = "your-object-name";

    // The path to which the file should be downloaded
    // Path destFilePath = Paths.get("/local/path/to/file.txt");

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();
    Blob blob =
        storage.get(
            BlobId.of(bucketName, objectName), Storage.BlobGetOption.userProject(projectId));
    blob.downloadTo(destFilePath, Blob.BlobSourceOption.userProject(projectId));

    System.out.println(
        "Object " + objectName + " downloaded to " + destFilePath + " and billed to " + projectId);
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The project ID to bill
// const projectId = 'my-billable-project-id';

// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// The ID of your GCS file
// const srcFileName = 'your-file-name';

// The path to which the file should be downloaded
// const destFileName = '/local/path/to/file.txt';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function downloadFileUsingRequesterPays() {
  const options = {
    destination: destFileName,
    userProject: projectId,
  };

  // Downloads the file
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).file(srcFileName).download(options);

  console.log(
    `gs://${bucketName}/${srcFileName} downloaded to ${destFileName} using requester-pays requests`
  );
}

downloadFileUsingRequesterPays().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Download file using specified project as requester
 *
 * @param string $projectId The ID of your Google Cloud Platform project.
 *        (e.g. 'my-project-id')
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $objectName The name of your Cloud Storage object.
 *        (e.g. 'my-object')
 * @param string $destination The local destination to save the object.
 *        (e.g. '/path/to/your/file')
 */
function download_file_requester_pays(string $projectId, string $bucketName, string $objectName, string $destination): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId
    ]);
    $userProject = true;
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName, $userProject);
    $object = $bucket->object($objectName);
    $object->downloadToFile($destination);
    printf('Downloaded gs://%s/%s to %s using requester-pays requests.' . PHP_EOL,
        $bucketName, $objectName, basename($destination));
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

from google.cloud import storage


def download_file_requester_pays(
    bucket_name, project_id, source_blob_name, destination_file_name
):
    """Download file using specified project as the requester"""
    # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name"
    # project_id = "your-project-id"
    # source_blob_name = "source-blob-name"
    # destination_file_name = "local-destination-file-name"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.bucket(bucket_name, user_project=project_id)
    blob = bucket.blob(source_blob_name)
    blob.download_to_filename(destination_file_name)

    print(
        "Blob {} downloaded to {} using a requester-pays request.".format(
            source_blob_name, destination_file_name
        )
    )

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

def download_file_requester_pays bucket_name:, file_name:, local_file_path:
  # The ID of a GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  # The ID of a GCS object
  # file_name = "your-file-name"

  # The path to which the file should be downloaded
  # local_file_path = "/local/path/to/file.txt"

  require "google/cloud/storage"

  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name, skip_lookup: true, user_project: true
  file    = bucket.file file_name

  file.download local_file_path

  puts "Downloaded #{file.name} using billing project #{storage.project}"
end

REST APIs

JSON API

1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

2. In your request, include the userProject query string parameter set to the ID of the project to be billed:

   curl -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     -o "SAVE_TO_LOCATION" \
     "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME/o/OBJECT_NAME?alt=media&userProject=PROJECT_IDENTIFIER"

   Where:

   • SAVE_TO_LOCATION is the location where you want to save your object. For example, Desktop/dog.png.
   • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the relevant bucket. For example, my-bucket.
   • OBJECT_NAME is the URL-encoded name of the object you want to download. For example, pets/dog.png, URL-encoded as pets%2Fdog.png.
   • PROJECT_IDENTIFIER is the ID or number of the project to be billed. For example, my-project.

XML API

1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

2. In your request, include the x-goog-user-project header set to the ID of the project to be billed:

   curl -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     -H "x-goog-user-project: PROJECT_ID" \
     -o "SAVE_TO_LOCATION" \
     "https://storage.googleapis.com/BUCKET_NAME/OBJECT_NAME"

   Where:

   • PROJECT_ID is the ID of the project to be billed. For example, my-project.
   • SAVE_TO_LOCATION is the location where you want to save your object. For example, Desktop/dog.png.
   • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the relevant bucket. For example, my-bucket.
   • OBJECT_NAME is the URL-encoded name of the object you want to download. For example, pets/dog.png, URL-encoded as pets%2Fdog.png.

What's next

• Learn more about Requester Pays.
• Make data publicly available.