# Google Cloud Storage

In order to let Collective Audience™ push you periodic reports in your Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket, you need to create a ***Service Accounts*** for us and configure the access to your ***bucket***.

[Buckets](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/key-terms#buckets) are the basic containers that hold your data. Everything that you store in GCS must be contained in a bucket. You can use buckets to organize your data and control access to your data.

A [Service Account](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts) is a special type of Google account intended to represent a non-human user that needs to authenticate and be authorized to access data in Google APIs. Below are the steps to create and use a Service Account.

## Step 1 — Create a Service Account and its private key

In the Google Cloud platform console, go to "IAM & Admin" and then the Service Accounts page.

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Fill in the name, for instance `caud-service-account`. Remember the email generated for you, you’ll need it later (step 2b).

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On the account we’ve just created in the list of Service Accounts, select “Manage keys” in the Actions menu.

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In the “add key” select button, select “Create new key”

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Select the JSON key type and download the key, **it’s the one you’ll specify in the Collective Audience™ dashboard**

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## Step 2 — Set permissions

We assume you’ve already created a storage bucket to contain the future Collective Audience™ exports (for instance, `caud-exports`). If you need help to create one, Google has a [help page](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/creating-buckets).

In the “Permissions” tab, click on the “Add” button at the bottom.

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Specify the email of the service account you’ve created in step 1b.

Then choose “Storage Object Creator” as the role; it allows us to write our exported files in your bucket, and nothing more.

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## Step3 — Done!

You can go back to your [Audience Desk™](https://desk.collectiveaudience.co/settings/account/periodic-exports), and specify in the configuration of your exports

* the bucket name (in our example, `caud-exports`)
* the credentials key as obtained in step 1e.