Prerequisites

You need to have an appengine project. This will not work as a standalone solution for non appengine django projects, since there is no authentication mechanism with the google cloud storage implemented.

### If you want to copy the files into your repository.

You need to install the GCS client library from https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlecloudstorageclient/download.

Just run pip install GoogleAppEngineCloudStorageClient -t <your_app_directory/lib>, or optionally, unzip the file and copy the src/cloudstorage folder into your project directory.

Installation

` pip install django-google-cloud-storage `

Or Just copy the google folder in your project directory

Configuration

On your django settings.py file you need to add the following settings

GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET = ‘/your_bucket_name’ # the name of the bucket you have created from the google cloud storage console GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_URL = ‘http://storage.googleapis.com/bucket’ #whatever the ulr for accessing your cloud storgage bucket GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_DEFAULT_CACHE_CONTROL = ‘public, max-age: 7200’ # default cache control headers for your files

And finally declare the file storage backend you will use on your settings.py file

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = ‘django_google_cloud_storage.GoogleCloudStorage’

Credits

Christos Kopanos (@ckopanos) - source code Richard Caceres (@rchrd2) - packaging into python module