Download objects

This page shows you how to download objects from your buckets in Cloud Storage to persistent storage. You can also download objects into memory.

Required roles

In order to get the required permissions for downloading objects, ask your administrator to grant you the Storage Object Viewer (roles/storage.objectViewer) role on the bucket. If you plan on using the Google Cloud console, ask your administrator to grant you the Storage Admin (roles/storage.admin) role on the bucket instead.

These roles contain the permissions required to download objects. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand the Required permissions section:

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

For instructions on granting roles on buckets, see Set and manage IAM policies on buckets.