[GH-ISSUE #53] Trying to download blob calls original googleapis url #2163

New issue

Closed

opened 2026-03-15 17:49:29 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-15 17:49:29 +03:00

Owner

Originally created by @kye308 on GitHub (Aug 3, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/fsouza/fake-gcs-server/issues/53

Hi, thanks for all the great work so far! I'm interested in downloading files with the server and am not sure if that is supported right now.

I can follow the steps in the readme to get a blob object. I would like to call blob.download_as_string() (or any similar download function) but when I do, I get

Unauthorized: 401 GET https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/<bucket>/o<object_name>?alt=media: (u'Request failed with status code', 401, u'Expected one of', 200, 206)

Is this expected? Wasn't sure if blob download is supported atm.

Originally created by @kye308 on GitHub (Aug 3, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/fsouza/fake-gcs-server/issues/53 Hi, thanks for all the great work so far! I'm interested in downloading files with the server and am not sure if that is supported right now. I can follow the steps in the readme to get a blob object. I would like to call `blob.download_as_string()` (or any similar download function) but when I do, I get ``` Unauthorized: 401 GET https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/<bucket>/o<object_name>?alt=media: (u'Request failed with status code', 401, u'Expected one of', 200, 206) ``` Is this expected? Wasn't sure if blob download is supported atm.

kerem closed this issue

2026-03-15 17:49:34 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-03-15 17:49:40 +03:00

Author

Owner

@fsouza commented on GitHub (Aug 6, 2019):

Hi @kye308 can you try the example from the examples folder?

@fsouza commented on GitHub (Aug 6, 2019): Hi @kye308 can you try the example from the [examples](https://github.com/fsouza/fake-gcs-server/tree/master/examples/python) folder?

kerem commented

2026-03-15 17:49:45 +03:00

Author

Owner

@fsouza commented on GitHub (Aug 7, 2019):

I just replaced the snippet with a direct link. The script is also being tested in our CI environment now, so we should be good!

Please feel free to reopen if you still encounter this issue.

@fsouza commented on GitHub (Aug 7, 2019): I just replaced the snippet with a direct link. The script is also being tested in our CI environment now, so we should be good! Please feel free to reopen if you still encounter this issue.