I need to store all the documents that users upload in my website on one Drive account.
These documents are on user's computers. They don't have and do not want to have a Google Drive account.
It is not really clear if the "Google Drive API" can achieve that or if I need "Google Cloud Storage API" that is more expensive for only storing files.
Said API has to create a folder for the documents of each user.
In addition to achieve that, do I need a G suite account?
Thanks a million for your help
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I would like to integrate Google Drive with my private website in such way that user will provide my website with his own Google Drive, and he could perform on my website such actions as: viewing, deleting, adding or editing files. Is is possible? What is needed to do such integration?
I read Google Drive API documentation and I checked it is possible to perform such actions as creating, reading, editing files. But I have no idea how to perform it on someones else private Google Drive.
The first thing you need to understand is that drive api is a rest api the response is returned in Json format. The google drive api is not going to give you any visual representation of a users drive account. For example your not going to be able to show them the google drive web application from your website. You will need to code the interface yoruself.
As for how to get permission we use something called Oauth2 to request consent for your application to access the users google drive account. It can be a little confusing in the beginning but there are a number of tutorials and QuickStart's which should help you get started.
This might be a very silly question, but I'm just trying to make sure I'm going about things for my senior project right. Does the Google Drive API connect to the user's personal Drive space?
Actually it's a very good question because it confuses a lot of first time Drive users.
The answer is, It depends.
There are two distinct Google Drive APIs, with different characteristics and capabilities. These are the Google Drive REST API and the Google Drive Android API (GDAA). You have tagged your question with both.
The Google Drive REST API can connect to any Drive account, e.g. your own, one of your users, or a Service Account. Which account it connects to is determined by how the Access Token was generated.
The GDAA only connects to the Google account associated with the Android device it's running on.
Some times ago I received a message that developer will responsible to pay for data transfer using Google Drive SDK for iOS.
Is this still actual, how to calculate a price for it? As I understood if many users will download huge data via google drive storage, it will be expensive for me as developer using SDK.
your linked question is about google cloud storage. that is untelated to google drive which has no cost to the developer if you are storing files in the user's drives.
I have a question about Google Drive that I'm hoping other programmers (with experience with the Google Drive API) will be able to answer. Note I have consulted the Google Drive API faqs and example projects but they dont answer my question. I'll provide some context in order for you to better understand my question.
We are developing an Smart Phone app that will allow people to view their civil engineering designs (Highway design, Dam design, Railway design, etc) in a 3d world, ie, showing their 'blue prints' in 3d. The app is being developed in Unity3d (3d Game Engine using C#).
Our plan is to create a Windows .exe (C# WinForms) that will allow the user to upload their blue print file to their own Google Drive account. The app will automatically download their blue prints from their google drive account (all the user has to do is login). Why create a .exe to upload files to a users account and not just get them to do it themselves through a web browser? Because we want to make it easy for the user, eventually provide automatic uploads/updates (when the user edits their project) and ensure that the files will always be in a specific folder on google drive. Thus a .exe will be able to achieve this.
My Question: Does the Google Drive API allow you to upload/download files to a users account. The Drive example projects appear to demonstrate uploading/downloading files to your own business Google Drive account and not a users. For those who have used the Google Drive API in their own projects; what are you charged for? Do you get charged for only downloading and uploading files or do you also get charge for connecting and querying files? If you upload/download files to an external Google Drive account (a users account) do you get charged or do they get charged?
If you have the users login to your app using Oauth2 they give you permission to access there google drive data. They can then download and upload to there account from your app.
Here are a few tutoials i did on this topic. Its a popular question, im working on a few sample apps to go with it.
Google Oauth2 c# Tutorial
Google Drive api C#
credential = GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
new ClientSecrets { ClientId = "YourClientId", ClientSecret = "YourClientSecret" },
new[] { DriveService.Scope.Drive,
DriveService.Scope.DriveFile },
"user",
CancellationToken.None,
new SavedDataStore(myStoredResponse)).Result; }
I'm going to use Google's infrastructure to store files and I hesitate between Google Drive and Google Cloud Storage. I don't think I'll store a lot of data (less than 50GB). However I would like to offer search functionality through files contents (FULL TEXT) to my users.
I know it's available with Google Drive SDK https://developers.google.com/drive/search-parameters but I'm not sure it is for Google Cloud Storage files ? I don't want to force my users to have a google account and they will be able to share files to others, and they will do all their stuff through my web site.
One more question, is there a way to manage identities with a Google API (create/update users) ? without a gmail account ?
thanks
Google cloud storage does not offer full text search at this time.
Identities require a Google/gmail account, but check out signed URLs: https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/accesscontrol#Signed-URLs.
Your app can determine whether one of your users should have access to an app and then hand the user a signed url that grants access to that object for a limited period of time.