I need to generate download link for around 5000++ of files within a google drive folder. However, i can't use ctrl+A to select all files and use Get link since not all files are loaded at once. So is there a method to get download link of all files within a google drive folder?
Thank you.
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I am currently exploring Google Drive APIs and am able to upload an individual file using Postman successfully.
I tried to create/upload a folder using Google Drive API but failed. In fact, I don't see any specific API to deal with a folder. I was giving it a try with create files API.
Reference - https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference
Any help will be appreciated.
If you check the documentation for files.create you will notice at the top it states
Creates a file.
This is singular each request creates a single file. If you want to upload a directory you will need to first create the directory then upload each file one at a time.
You could try batching but I don't think you can batch the file upload itself you could probably batch the metadata creation performance#details
I noticed this behavior on Google Drive.
When a link is created for a file on Google Drive, the link is valid until the file is deleted.
Moving the file to another folder(s) does not affect the behavior of url.
I will like to understand how they achieved this at scale.
This is an expected behavior when moving files to another folder within your google drive. This is because a google file URL is usually composed of the following:
product domain
product
document Id
Therefore, moving the file to another folder within the google drive will not affect the file URL because file path is not included in the URL format.
References:
Google Sheets API Overview
Docs API
I used to use below Google Drive API to move my existing file to another drive folder
drive.files().update(fileId=cloudFile['id'],addParents=sharefile,media_body=media).execute()
I just got an email said that the Google Drive folder structure is changed and I'm not allowed to use "addParent" to share filers anymore. I was wondering how can I do this with drive API? I don't want to re-write the entire code, and I'm looking for the simplest way to replace addParents API.
Answer:
Instead of giving a file multiple parents, you can create a shortcut to another Drive file instead (such as a folder).
More Information:
You can use the shortcuts functionality of Google Drive instead of the multiple parents functionality to emulate the kind of behaviour. From the Documentation:
Shortcuts are files that link to other files on Google Drive.
Shortcuts are Drive files with the application/vnd.google-apps.shortcut MIME type, that point to another file or folder on a Google Drive. You can read more about this here.
References:
Create a Shortcut to a Drive File
Find files & folders with Google Drive shortcuts
G Suite and Drive MIME Types
I noticed that while upload any folder on Google drive, Its automatically listed all containing files from an specific folder, however its all at client end and as per my knowledge no any client end language access client directory or system details then how Google Drive listed all containing files by giving only folder reference.
I am not sure about the exact implementation for Google Drive folder upload, but in HTML5, there is a webkitdirectory which support the operation.
See: http://earlysandwich.com/programming/how-to-upload-multiple-files-or-folders-with-html-and-php-168
I would like to use Google Drive to push files in various folders onto a remote computer. I would like this to be a one-way transaction so the people using the computer cannot write to Google Drive.
However, when I use the following C# code to get the files from Google Docs I only get the file names, not their directories where they will be on the remote computer. This won't work because some files in different directories have the same name. Is there a way to programmatically get directory information from these files?
Alternately, if I could set up the Google Drive folder to be read-only, that would accomplish my goal and probably be easier. Can this be done?
You should use the Google Drive API to list all files and check the parents field of each of them to map those files into folders:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files#resource