Blobstore is is not officially deprecated, and I hear that there are no
plans to deprecate it.

Yet it is de facto deprecated -- Google recommends
<https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/blobstore/>against
using it.

The problem with Blobstore is

- No backup tool.
-  The data is locked up -- very difficult to extract.   The API
<https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/blobstore/> is
oriented towards downloading to a  browser, using a key passed from an HTML
form.  It should be possible to write code that behaves like  a browser,
but I'd rather not have to figure that out.
- There is no API usable on Flex Env, or anywhere else except Standard Env


Google should provide a super-easy way to extract and migrate data.

Most simply, note that Cloud Storage can be a backing store for Blobstore.

Google should provide a one-button migration that takes a Blobstore and
alters it so that it is backed by Cloud Storage. Then existing Blobstore
clients would continue to work, but it would become possible to access the
data by a better-supported API.

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