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+| :boom: ALERT!! |
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+|  [](http://github.com/badges/stability-badges) This project is no longer actively developed or maintained. |
-This project is no longer actively developed or maintained.
+**TL;DR:** To store files from
+[App Engine](https://cloud.google.com/appengine) to [Cloud Storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage), please use the [Cloud Storage client libraries](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/reference/libraries) available in different languages. Each one will have its own open source repo and documentation. Those libraries can connect your app to Cloud Storage, usable outside of App Engine and any other Google Cloud compute platform.
-For new work on this check out:
-* [Google Cloud Java/Cloud Storage](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/master/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-storage)
-* [PyPi/Google Cloud Storage](https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-storage/)
-[](http://github.com/badges/stability-badges)
+# Google App Engine custom Cloud Storage client libraries
-# AppEngine Google Cloud Storage clients
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-The libraries in this repository are obsolete and not recommended.
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-Java Applications that use these APIs can only run in App Engine.
-Applications should upgrade
-to the [Cloud Client Libraries for the Google Cloud Storage API](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/reference/libraries)
-before migrating to newer App Engine runtimes.
-The recommended APIs enable your application to run in the Java 8 App Engine
-runtime as well as other environments that support Java 8.
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-* [Documentation for the Python library](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlecloudstorageclient/)
-* [Documentation for the Java library](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/googlecloudstorageclient/)
+The libraries in this repository replaced the original [App Engine Files API deprecated in Jun 2013](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2013/06/google-app-engine-181-released.html) and represented the original client libraries for Cloud Storage created just for App Engine users. Since then, the Google Cloud team [launched the Cloud Storage client libraries in Dec 2016](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/announcing-new-google-cloud-client) (linked above) which obsolete these libraries, which are no longer recommended. For archival purposes, here is a link to the documentation for the [Python version](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/googlecloudstorageclient/setting-up-cloud-storage#downloading_the_client_library) of this library. It will be removed at some point in the near future. (The Java documentation was already removed in 2021.)
