Bulk copy files on google drive from a list of hyperlinks - google-apps-script

Question

I have a list of 200 hyperlinks saved on a spreadsheet. Those links are for files (particularly Google Slides files) all saved in Google Drive. They are scattered in sub folders under the same root folder that has ~1500 files
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
...
Link 200
I want to make a copy of those 200 files only. There is no common search term or filter to pull them up on Google Drive search. So I need to work off that list
Thoughts on doing this? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I believe your current situation and your goal as follows.
You have the Spreadsheet including 200 hyperlinks of Google Slides like https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/FILE_ID.
You want to copy the Google Slides to the specific folder in your Google Drive.
You want to achieve this using Google Apps Script.
From the number of hyperlinks, I thought that in this case, the batch request might be useful for your situation. When the batch request is used, the process cost will become low because the batch request is run with the asynchronous process. So, in this answer, I would like to propose to copy the files of 200 hyperlinks using the batch request. The sample script is as follows.
Usage:
1. Install a Google Apps Script library.
In this script, in order to achieve the batch request, a Google Apps Script library is used. Ref I thought that the request of the batch request might be a bit complecate. Ref So I created this library for using the batch request with Google Apps Script. The library's project key is as follows.
1HLv6tWz0oXFOJHerBTP8HsNmhpRqssijJatC92bv9Ym6HSN69_UuzcDk
The method for installing the library can be seen at the official document. Ref
2. Sample script.
Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor of your Google Spreadsheet including 200 hyperlinks like https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/FILE_ID. This script used Drive API. So, before you use this script, please enable Drive API at Advanced Google services. And, run the function "myFunction".
function myFunction() {
const sheetName = "Sheet1"; // Please set the sheet name.
const destinationFolderId = "###"; // Please set the destination folder ID.
// 1. Retrieve file IDs from Spreadsheet.
const sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName(sheetName);
const fileIds = sheet.getRange("A1:A" + sheet.getLastRow()).getValues().reduce((ar, [a]) => {
if ((/^https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d/).test(a)) ar.push(a.split("/")[5]);
return ar;
}, []);
console.log(fileIds) // You can check the retrieved file ID.
// 2. Retrieve the filenames form the file IDs using the "Files: get" method with the batch request.
const requests1 = fileIds.map(id => ({
method: "GET",
endpoint: `https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/${id}?supportsAllDrives=true`,
}));
const res1 = BatchRequest.EDo({batchPath: "batch/drive/v3", requests: requests1});
console.log(res1) // You can check the retrieved file metadata.
// 3. Copy the files using the file IDs and filenames using the "Files: copy" method with the batch request.
const requests2 = res1 .map(({id, name}) => ({
method: "POST",
endpoint: `https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/${id}/copy?supportsAllDrives=true`,
requestBody: {parents: [destinationFolderId || "root"], name},
}));
const res2 = BatchRequest.EDo({batchPath: "batch/drive/v3", requests: requests2});
console.log(res2);
}
Note:
In this sample script, it supposes that the 200 hyperlinks are put in the column "A" of "Sheet1". So, please modify this for your actual situation. Please be careful this.
References:
Batch request of official document
Files: get
Files: copy
BatchRequest of Google Apps Script library

Answer 2

Assuming the links look something similar to this and they're stored in the A column:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/SLIDE_ID/edit
You can easily extract the slideId from the hyperlink which corresponds to the fileId by making use of this formula (by dragging it down the whole A column):
=REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"[-\w]{25,}")
Finally, in order to copy each file, you can make use of Apps Script’s DriveApp, something similar to this:
DriveApp.getFileById(“fileId”).makeCopy(“destination”);
However, since the fileId corresponds to a range in the sheet, you can pass directly the range - so instead of using “fileId”, you could use this:
let sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(“spreadsheetId”).getSheetByName(“sheetName”);
let fileId = sheet.getRange(1,2).getValue();
The snippet above is retrieving the sheet where the links are stored and then by making use of the getRange and getValue methods it retrieves the value from the B1 cell (assuming that the ids of the files will be in the B column after REGEXEXTRACT).
Note
Please bear in mind that you can extract the fileId as well directly in your script, depending on the workaround and programming language .
Reference
Files Class Apps Script;
Spreadsheet Class Apps Script;
Range Class Apps Script;
REGEXEXTRACT function.