Buckets: get

Returns metadata for the specified bucket.

Required permissions

The authenticated user must have the storage.buckets.get IAM permission to use this method. Additionally, to return specific bucket metadata, the authenticated user must have the following permissions:

  • To return the IAM policies: storage.buckets.getIamPolicy
  • To return the bucket IP filtering rules: storage.buckets.getIpFilter

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
generation long If present, selects a specific soft-deleted version of this bucket instead of the live version. This parameter is required if softDeleted is set to true.
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.
softDeleted boolean If true, returns the soft-deleted bucket. This parameter is required if generation is specified.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

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

For information about status and error codes returned by this API, see the reference page.

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