Is it possible to upload a file by url to cloud storage on app engine without writing to disk?

Question

To upload a file from url to a cloud storage system, usually it is required to download that file on a server, and then upload it to the cloud storage.

For large files,

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible. You can generate an upload URL (using Cloud Storage API) and provide it to a client that should use it in a POST request.

Here is docs for PHP but this approach should be working for Python as well.

Here is an example: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/storage-signedurls-python