File not found error Google Drive API - google-drive-api

Question

I am using the Drive REST API to download a file. I am making a GET request using the file id and I get a file not found exception.
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "notFound",
"message": "File not found: xxxxx",
"locationType": "other",
"location": "file"
}
],
"code": 404,
"message": "File not found: xxxxx"
}
}
I have also generated the apikey and I am using it in my GET request.The file does exist so I am unsure what I am missing here.

Answer 1

Make sure scopes are corrects
var url = oauth2Client.generateAuthUrl({
access_type: 'offline',
scope: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata'
]
});
Drive API declares the following scopes. Select which ones you want to grant to APIs Explorer.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
View and manage the files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata
View and manage its own configuration data in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
View and manage Google Drive files and folders that you have opened or created with this app
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata
View and manage metadata of files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly
View metadata for files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.photos.readonly
View the photos, videos and albums in your Google Photos
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
View the files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.scripts
Modify your Google Apps Script scripts' behaviour
Sorce: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/drive/v3/drive.files.get

Answer 2

This is resolved. I wasn't providing the correct access_token when making the GET request for file metadata. I regenerated the authorization code, access_token and my code is working now.

Answer 3

In my case, I simply had not given access to the folder to my service account. Simply sharing it via the web interface solved the problem.
What email address to use:
Check the email address of your service account here:
https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts?project=NAME_OF_PROJECT&supportedpurview=project
The email address will look like this:
name-of-service-account#name-of-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

Answer 4

I would check to see if the file you are trying to retrieve the metadata for is part of a team drive; if it is then you have to set supportsTeamDrives=True in the request.

Answer 5

If you are getting a response like this:
<HttpError 404 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/REDACTED_FILE_ID/copy?alt=json returned "File not found: REDACTED_FILE_ID.". Details: "[{'domain': 'global', 'reason': 'notFound', 'message': 'File not found: REDACTED_FILE_ID.', 'locationType': 'parameter', 'location': 'fileId'}]">
And the fileId points to a file on a Shared Drive, you'll need to include supportsSharedDrives=true in your request parameters.
Google provides more detail on this in their Implement shared drive support article.
Here's a small example with Python for creating a copy:
googledrive = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)
copy_response = googledrive.files().copy(
fileId=TEMPLATE_SPREADSHEET_ID,
body={
"parents": [
report_folder_id,
],
'title': report_title
},
supportsAllDrives=True
).execute()
In order to run that, you'll want to mix it into the example code from the Python Quickstart for Google Drive API.

Answer 6

I got to this question because I was getting a "File not found" error when using the update method.
I was using this line in Python to execute the method:
files_res.update(fileId=f_id, body={"name": f_name}).execute()
I could list the shared file and its parent fine, but update failed, no matter what the scope with this error:
...
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "notFound",
"message": "File not found: 1YqV...",
"locationType": "parameter",
"location": "fileId"
}
],
"code": 404,
...
I added the supportsAllDrives=True param to the method and it worked:
files_res.update(fileId=f_id, body={"name": f_name}, supportsAllDrives=True).execute()

Answer 7

In my case, I was using the file client_secret.json that I had created with the gmail address I use all the time, but I was creating the credentials with another e-mail.