I 've the follow simple scenario:
a server of my boss
some costumers with google drive accounts
so I'd like to transfer daily some files to costumers google drive...
My question is: if a customer have pc disconnected or is not logged to my site is possible from my server upload a file into costumer google drive?
And if yes there's a limit of user or daily transfer?
p.s.
better if I can use A Google Drive spreadsheet and update data
thanks
Yes it is possible, but there are many steps in between.
1.- You would need an application, so you can perform this operations through your app. check the documentation.
2.- You would need to set the offline access, this way you will be able to upload files even if the user is not logged. Oauth Offline access.
3.- The users (customers with Google Drive account) will have to authorize your application to access their Drive accounts. After this you will be able to get an access token and a refresh token.
4.- With the refresh token you can refresh the access token (it expires after an hour) without having the user to login again and get a new access token. (you have to store this refresh token)
5.- Now you can call the function Drive.Files.Insert in order to upload a file into the customer's Drive. When calling this function you need to provide the access token related to the user.
6.- There are limits that apply to the API. These quotas are against the application. If you make too many calls to the API, you may reach these limits for your application. You can check these limits in the Developer Console of your application.
I hope this helps. I know it's a lot of information but is the procedure you need to follow.
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I have created a web app which is making use of Google Drive API/ REST v2 (https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/web/about-sdk) to perform actions such as create/update/rename/delete of documents etc.
I am authorizing requests with OAuth 2.0 (client side - that means every access token is valid for ~1h and then silently I am getting a new token) and then perform previous actions using that token.
I have a new requirement for the authorized user to share his/her documents for writing/updating them (I found out that API has option for inserting permissions (https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/permissions/insert : role: writer, type: anyone).
Is it possible for a non-authenticated user to be able to write/update documents (programmatically - via Google Drive API v2 or another API?) that have been created from the authenticated user that shared these? (something that is similar to google docs/ sharing when a user is sharing his document and offline users are able to edit it?
Thanks.
Is it possible for a non-authenticated user to be able to write/update documents (programmatically - via Google Drive API v2 or another API?) that have been created from the authenticated user that shared these? (something that is similar to google docs/ sharing when a user is sharing his document and offline users are able to edit it?
What you are describing here is something called a service account. Service accounts are like dummy users. You can share a file on your Google drive account with the service accounts email address and the service account will then have access to that file. Assuming that you gave them edit permissions it will be able to read and write to it without authenticating.
Note: service accounts do not work client sided you will need to use a server sided language to use service accounts.
I want to access my own google drive on web page but allow anyone to upload files and restrict download access or show only limited file to user for downloading.
Drive API assumes that I will access another users credentials.
But what I want is opposite, anyone can view my files (restricted what to view) but is free to upload.
I have google nearly 6+ hours and didn't found any solution
Any Help Appreciated
Thanks
You say "Drive API assumes that I will access another users credentials" but this isn't correct. Calls to Drive include an Access Token, and it is that which determines which Drive account the call will access. Drive makes no assumptions about how that Access Token was obtained or which account it refers to.
All of the examples show how an Access Token is obtained for an end user, since that is the more complex flow. Your requirement is very much simpler.
All you need to do is:-
Obtain a refresh token (see How do I authorise an app (web or installed) without user intervention? (canonical ?))
Store that refresh token in your PHP application. Make sure it's secure
When you need to access your Drive account, use the refresh token to obtain an access token as described at https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2WebServer#refresh
I am integrating ASP.NET application using Google Drive API. For this after authentication we re uploading Files to Google drive. I am using Google client library to Call the APIs.
Everything is working as expected I am able to authenticate user successfully and able to upload the file successfully.
In one scenario when the user Google account is suspended then I am getting refresh token from Google but my upload method is failing and it is not uploading the file to Google drive.
I want to restrict the user on Signup screen itself, when account is suspended.
What parameter do I have to pass to achieve this please suggest?
Unfortunately this info is not easily available. You have two options :
Use the Directory API to see if the user is suspended. This requires additional OAuth permissions to be provided by an admin of the domain.
At login, try and perform a Drive API call to see if you get an error or not. If you get an error (with a couple of retried) and the error message matches the one you had for suspended users, then you can deny access to the user.
I am trying to upload some documents on Google drive, i want to run a cron script which is executed at mid night every day and the files generated as a result of it should be uploaded on the uses Google drive.
I tried the standalone script, which uploads document on Google drive, but for that i have to every time do allow access via browser.
However my purpose is to run a cron and upload the files, at the time the cron executes there will be no browser access.
Is there any way i can do the authentication process without manual intervention.
any help in this case would be really appreciated.
THanks,
you can authorize your App（script） with Google Drive.
Here, you mentioned you are writing a script which upload docs to your Google Drive.
I suggest you register a app in Google Cloud Console to get client ID and client Secret firstly,
and turn on Drive API for you registered App.
Then use this client ID and Secret to run oauth flow in your script to get an access token and refresh token, the access token's lifespan is about 3600s, and if it's expired, you can also get a new one with the refresh token.
User's interaction(consent) is required only in the first time you request access token.
In this way, your script can work in "a real script way".
Here are some reference:
https://developers.google.com/drive/about-auth
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2InstalledApp?hl=zh-CN
I am assuming its only one user drive account you are uploading to. Have you considered using a service account fo this? https://developers.google.com/drive/service-accounts
If its not a single user account you are uploading you can just save the refresh token some place and use that to get a new authtoken every night.
Hi i figured the problem,
i was generating refresh token from oauthplayground and was trying to integrate it in the php script....which was invalid......
I then printed the refresh token returned for the first time when a user allows access and used that for future generation of access token and it works like charm. thanks All for help
We have a google corporate account and need to transfer ALL of a user's google drive files to another account in certain instances. We want to do what is described at the following link for "all files" but programatically via the latest Drive API http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1247799
We are currently using the following API version(s) below, coupled with domain wide authority delegation as described at https://developers.google.com/drive/delegation and are able to see a user's files, iterate over them etc.
google-api-services-drive 1.14.2-beta
google-api-client 1.14.1-beta
My question is this: it appears that the only way to change permissions is by fileId by fileId etc. Instead of having to traverse and iterate over an entire set of user's files, if we just want to transfer ALL of a user's files to another particular user: is there a way in the API to do this (ownership transfer for ALL files) rather than individual requests file/by file?
Also when transferring ownershisp, must the transferee be in the same #domain or can it be another #domain we manage? I read somewhere that you can only transfer to owners in the same domain. Does this still hold true? For instance we manage #myCompany.com and have our corporate account registered under that, however that shell account has several sub-domains within it. We would like to transfer files from users in the sub-domains to a central user in the #myCompany domain.
You need to change permissions file by file, there is no updateAll type of functionality at the moment.
You cant transfer the ownership to another domain's user. Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same domain as the current owner.
This answer doesn't directly answer your question, but it could be helpful for both you and future visitors.
As of now, you can mass transfer files to new users with Google's new Admin console. It doesn't let you filter for specific folders, but it does allow you to transfer all of one user's Drive files to a second user.
I know you were trying to create something which uses the API to iterate through folders and files, and you probably have a very specific use-case in mind. However, in the case where you have employees leaving, or you need to transfer everything, using the following method is fast and simple.
Open the Google Admin console
Go to Google Apps > Drive
Click on "Transfer ownership"
Fill out both user fields and submit
This process will even email both users once the process is completed.
You can do this with a single call to the Data Transfer API
Exactly what is needed but only with API!
Open the Google Admin console
Go to Google Apps > Drive
Click on "Transfer ownership"
Fill out both user fields and submit
This process will even email both users once the process is completed.
If this is not possible via API calls, then there is no point deleting a user using API.