Access Google Cloud Storage object in a project that I don't belong to

Question

There is a GCP project that contains a bucket that I have read and write permissions to, but I don't know the name of the project nor am I part of the project. None of the contents of this bucket are public.

I have successfully authenticated my user locally using gcloud auth application-default login .

I can successfully download from this bucket using gsutil cat gs://BUCKET/PATH .

However, if I use the google.cloud.storage Python API, it fails at the point of identifying the project, presumably because I don't have access to the project itself:

from google.cloud import storage
client = storage.Client()
storage.Blob.from_string("gs://BUCKET/PATH", client=client).download_as_text()

The billing account for the owning project is disabled in state closed: ('Request failed with status code', 403, 'Expected one of', <HTTPStatus.OK: 200>, <HTTPStatus.PARTIAL_CONTENT: 206>)

I can't use storage.Client.create_anonymous_client() since this is only relevant for public buckets, but I suspect that I could fix this by changing the credentials argument to Client() .

Can anyone help me download the file from Google Cloud in this case?

Answer 1

If you have permission, you can find the project number for a given bucket with the bucket get API call. See this guide for how to do it with various client libraries.