> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.unstructured.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Google Cloud Storage

<Note>
  First time creating a connector? [Read this first](/pipelines/connector-first-time-reqs).
</Note>

Ingest your files into Unstructured from Google Cloud Storage.

The requirements are as follows.

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* A Google Cloud service account. [Create a service account](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts-create#console).

* A service account key for the service account. See [Create a service account key](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/keys-create-delete#creating) in
  [Create and delete service account keys](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/keys-create-delete).

  To ensure maximum compatibility across Unstructured service offerings, you should give the service account key information to Unstructured as
  a single-line string that contains the contents of the downloaded service account key file (and not the service account key file itself).
  To print this single-line string without line breaks, suitable for copying, you can run one of the following commands from your Terminal or Command Prompt.
  In this command, replace `<path-to-downloaded-key-file>` with the path to the service account key file that you downloaded by following the preceding instructions.

  * For macOS or Linux:
    ```text theme={null}
    tr -d '\n' < <path-to-downloaded-key-file>
    ```
  * For Windows:
    ```text theme={null}
    (Get-Content -Path "<path-to-downloaded-key-file>" -Raw).Replace("`r`n", "").Replace("`n", "")
    ```

* The URI for a Google Cloud Storage bucket. This URI consists of the target bucket name, plus any target folder within the bucket, expressed as `gs://<bucket-name>[/folder-name]`. [Create a bucket](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/creating-buckets#console).

  This bucket must have, at minimum, one of the following roles applied to the target Google Cloud service account:

  * `Storage Object Viewer` for bucket read access.
  * `Storage Object User` for bucket write access.
  * The `Storage Object Admin` role provides read and write access, plus access to additional bucket operations.

  To apply one of these roles to a service account for a bucket, see [Add a principal to a bucket-level policy](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/using-iam-permissions#bucket-add)
  in [Set and manage IAM policies on buckets](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/using-iam-permissions).

To create the source connector:

1. On the sidebar, click **Connectors**.
2. Click **Sources**.
3. Cick **New** or **Create Connector**.
4. Give the connector some unique **Name**.
5. In the **Provider** area, click **Google GCS**.
6. Click **Continue**.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions to fill in the fields as described later on this page.
8. Click **Save and Test**.

Fill in the following fields:

* **Name** (*required*): A unique name for this connector.
* **Bucket URI** (*required*): The URI for the Google Cloud Storage bucket and any target folder path within the bucket. This URI takes the format `gs://<bucket-name>[/folder-name]`.
* **Recursive** (source connector only): Check this box to ingest data recursively from any subfolders, starting from the path specified by **Bucket URI**.
* **Service Account Key** (*required*): The contents of a service account key file, expressed as a single string without line breaks, for a Google Cloud service account that has the required access permissions to the bucket.