# Opening cloud data without using intake
**URL:** https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/opening-cloud-data-without-using-intake/748
**Category:** Pangeo Cloud Support
**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/opening-cloud-data-without-using-intake/748 "2020-07-16T17:32:51Z")
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### Author:  [@cspencerjones](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/cspencerjones)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/opening-cloud-data-without-using-intake/748/1 "2020-07-16T17:32:52Z")
This syntax doesn’t appear to work any more:
```auto
import xarray as xr
import fsspec
ds = xr.open_zarr(fsspec.get_mapper('gs://pangeo-ldeo-mitgcm/channel_floats/channel_float_vars'))
```
I know the data exists, because I can open it with intake, but how do I open a dataset that’s not in the intake catalog (e.g. gs://argodata/sdl/GLOBAL\_ARGO\_SDL2000)? Or is this no longer possible?
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### Author:  [@rabernat](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/rabernat)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/opening-cloud-data-without-using-intake/748/2 "2020-07-17T02:35:52Z")
The data are now all [requester pays](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/requester-pays). So I think you need to do something like
```python
import gscfs
gcs = gcsfs.GCSFileSystem(requester_pays=True)
gcs.get_mapper(url)
```
Let us know if this works.
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### Author:  [@cspencerjones](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/cspencerjones)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/opening-cloud-data-without-using-intake/748/3 "2020-07-17T14:16:26Z")
Thanks! This works - I will do a PR to update the docs.