How to get the blob size of Cloud Storage object?

Question

I could get the size from gsutil.

✗ gsutil du gs://<bucket>/test/1561402306
100          gs://<bucket>/test/1561402306

I could confirm the length and content via download_as_string. However, the size property always returns None from SDK/API.

How could I get the size of Cloud Storage object without downloaded?

from google.cloud import storage

client = storage.Client()
bucket = client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
blob = bucket.blob(blob_name)
print(len(blob.download_as_string().decode()))
print(blob.size)

Output:

100
None

Answer 1

to obtain the object's metadata you should use the method "get_blob" when retrieving the blob.

I have edited your code like this:

from google.cloud import storage

client = storage.Client()
bucket = client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
blob = bucket.get_blob(blob_name) #here you use the method get_blob
print(len(blob.download_as_string().decode()))
print(blob.size)

You'll be able to access the size of the object now and you will also have access to the other metadata, for more information about it check this documentation.