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How to configure Google Cloud Storage and use it in ShareX

Create project

• Open Google Cloud Console
• Click Select a project then New project
• Name your project, for example ShareX
• Click Create

Setup billing profile

Google Cloud Storage Pricing

Google Cloud Storage isn't free, it's billed based on usage, not a static monthly fee. Storage is very cheap, most users bills will be free or 1-2 cents a month.

• Open billing and setup profile

Create bucket

• Open storage
• Click Create bucket
• If you plan on using a custom domain, you must first verify the domain using this guide, then name your bucket the domain you're going to use. For example, https://i.example.com/image.png bucket should be named i.example.com
• Storage class should be regional if you plan on using a CDN like Cloudflare, or multi-regional if not.
• Access control should be Fine-grained
• Click Create

[Optional] Configure DNS for custom domain

If you are going to use your own domain then you must configure DNS.

For example if you are using Cloudflare, your bucket name is i.example.com then these are DNS settings:

• Type: CNAME
• Name: i
• Value: c.storage.googleapis.com

Configure ShareX Google Cloud Storage settings

• Open Destinations -> Destination settings
• Select Google Cloud Storage tab
• Complete authorization
• Fill bucket name same as which you created
• For the upload path I suggest using %y/%mo which creates such folder 2017/12
• If you are using a custom domain fill it in. Google Cloud Storage doesn't support custom domain https natively, so unless you are using a tls proxy such as Cloudflare, you must prepend http protocol to your domain. So in the custom domain box you would fill in exactly http://i.example.com
• If you are using uniform permissions in your bucket, make sure to untick Set public-read ACL on file, since ACL isn't supported in uniform permission buckets.
• Now you can close destination settings window
• In main window make sure to select Google Cloud Storage as destination for image uploader, text uploader and file uploader

Now you are ready to use Google Cloud Storage in ShareX!