I once attempted to use GCS for file uploading using elixir google api but I change a cloud provider since I needed a ecto integration and waffle and s3 integrates well.

As for your question please kindly read the README of elixir google api.

1. Add google_api_storage and goth to your dependencies
2. Get your google client id and secret
3. export the client id and secret as shown below:

export GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=[YOUR-OAUTH-CLIENT-ID]
export GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=[YOUR-OAUTH-CLIENT-SECRET]

4. Perform requests

# Obtain an access token using goth
{:ok, token} = Goth.Token.for_scope("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform")
conn = GoogleApi.Storage.V1.Connection.new(token.token)

# Call the Storage V1 API (for example) to list buckets
{:ok, response} = GoogleApi.Storage.V1.Api.Buckets.storage_buckets_list(conn, project_id)

# Print the response
Enum.each(response.items, &IO.puts(&1.id))

You can also checkout the example repo: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/elixir-samples/tree/master/storage

Is the file generated by the server or by the user? If the file is uploaded by the user, I would not bother uploading the file to your server and then forwarding it to the GCS bucket. Instead, I would generate a signed URL on the server, send that to the browser and let the browser upload the file directly to the bucket.

I describe two variants for creating such a signed URL on gcs_signed_url. The two variants differ in whether your application is running on the Google cloud itself or not.

Please kindly search on your own how to generate google client id and secrets, for starters

• you head over to API and services
• click on Credentials
• click on Create credentials and select OAuth client ID

As for these two

export GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=[YOUR-OAUTH-CLIENT-ID]
export GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=[YOUR-OAUTH-CLIENT-SECRET]

after you secure you client id and secret, open a new terminal on the current project directory and type those above.