I'm using Google Drive as a storage and decided to put one file into multiple folders (~500) in my case. I called Google Drive v2 API PUT files method to update file parents. It returns me error 400.
Does anybody know what is the addParents and removeParents limitation?
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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
Was trying to use Google Drive API (Java) in my android project. I logged in successfully, and was able to use the list() method successfully, but the getFiles() method return a empty List whereas my google drive actually having more than 100 files. I couldn't find any answer regarding this.
I tried to use Get(). I was able to read/update the file metadata but don't know how to get the file contents. From my googling I know I have to identify alt=media but I don't know how. Could anybody give a full example.
To retrieve the contents of a Gogle document like Google Sheets, Google Docs etc. you can use the Sheets API, Docs API etc. respectively
To retrieve the contents of a non-Google file on your Google Drive, like e.g. a text file - you cannot do it directly
Instead, you need to donwload the file to your local Drive
For this, when using the method Files: get, specify alt=media as you already know
However, this will not directly give you the file contents, but rather request a download of the contents from the server
In the next step you need to write this downloaded content to a file on your local machine
The Guide for downloading files stored on Google Drive provide samples of how to do so in Java, Python and Node.js
I am trying to get a list of files in my drive that have been orphaned. I tried using the search term is:orphaned but I just get :
Invalid argument: q (line 56, file "Code")
Does anyone know the right search term for searching orphaned drive files in apps script?
It's currently not possible to list orphaned files using the Drive API or the DriveApp method in Apps Script.
You can find the list of available search queries and terms for the Drive API here. While there is a parents file query term, this is for finding files with parents of a specific ID as shown in the files resource documentation.
You can head to Google's Issue Tracker to file a Feature Request for this though, which will let Google know that this is a desired feature of the API.
I'm looking for a way that I can programmatically get diffs of a file that is on Google Drive and information of who modified the file.
It seems that Google Drive API does not provide diffs, but they provide revisions of a file via Revisions API.
Revisions.list() method returns an URL of each revision of a file. So, it is possible to check the difference between two revisions if I download them and compare with each other.
But I cannot know who modified the file in this way. Response of Revisions.list() method returns only one editor of the file if other people are editing at the same time.
Does anyone have any idea how to get such data?
I found that I could see how & who modified a file on Google Drive.
( File -> See reision history )
Thanks