diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c6365d1..1b4477b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,7 @@ s3transfer==0.1.11
 six==1.11.0
 virtualenv==15.1.0
 tabulate==0.8.2
+
+google-api-python-client==1.7.4
+google.cloud==0.34.0
+google-cloud-storage==1.12.0
diff --git a/weirdAAL.py b/weirdAAL.py
index 387036f..1fbaf85 100755
--- a/weirdAAL.py
+++ b/weirdAAL.py
@@ -17,8 +17,20 @@ import re
 from tabulate import tabulate
 import textwrap
 
+# not pythonic but keeping google imports separate for now
+import google.auth
+import googleapiclient.discovery
+
+from google.oauth2 import service_account
+from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError
+
+from google.cloud import storage, exceptions
+from google.cloud.exceptions import *
+
 os.environ['AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE'] = '.env'
 
+os.environ['GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS'] = 'key.json'
+
 # If you want to use a transparent + supports SSL proxy you can put it here
 # os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY'] = 'https://127.0.0.1:3128'