# Can dgraph bulk loader use google cloud storage

**URL:** https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/can-dgraph-bulk-loader-use-google-cloud-storage/7167
**Category:** Dgraph
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/can-dgraph-bulk-loader-use-google-cloud-storage/7167 "2020-06-12T20:49:47Z")
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### Author: ![gvelez-postmates](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/97f17d/32.png) [@gvelez-postmates](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/gvelez-postmates)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/can-dgraph-bulk-loader-use-google-cloud-storage/7167/1 "2020-06-12T20:49:48Z")

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Hi, if we have large amount of data in google cloud storage do we need to download it to a mounted drive or can we directly import it using dgraph bulk loader? It seems the former but with large amounts of data would be nice

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### Author: ![Anurag](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/anurag/32/2599_2.png) [@Anurag](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/Anurag)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/can-dgraph-bulk-loader-use-google-cloud-storage/7167/2 "2020-06-13T07:56:36Z")

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Currently, Dgraph supports only `live loader` and `bulk loader` to import large datasets into Dgraph. Both of these require the data to be present on the disk. We do have [distributed bulk loader](https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/issues/2628) in our roadmap but nothing related to providing APIs which can directly import from cloud storage.

Thanks!