We are currently integrating google drive permissions into our app. We would like to be able to display the company name for permissions like google drive does currently. For example,
when you go to a file and select Share and change the share settings you are able to see the company name say "Acme, Co.".
Currently I am seeing that the permissions API returns domain, for example acmeco.com. Is there a way to retrieve the actual company name (Acme, Co.).
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My organization has a project that is using Google Drive to store files. What we want to do is to show the contents of the Drive on a website.
I'm not really sure how to go about this. Most of the examples are showing authenticating the user accessing the site.
Right now, what I am thinking of doing is to use a service account. I have a Node app running a service account, which I just followed from the samples in the Node.js samples. I realized that the contents shown from running the app are the contents of the Drive of the service account.
What I wanted to happen was show the contents of the Drive that owns the project.
I'm not sure if you can get around authentication when it comes to standard User Accounts.
But you don't really need to impersonate a User Account. There is a alternative solution. From your User account, create a folder and move all the files needed by the app into it. Then share the folder with the service account and grant it edit access. To share the folder you'll need to know the email address of the service account which you can find in your Google Developer's Console. To get to the service account's page, click the menu icon (the triple bar) at the top left and select IAM Admin. On that page there should be a menu option for service accounts, when selected it will provide you with a list of all your service accounts and their corresponding email addresses.
See: Is it possible to share a file publicly through Google Drive API
Using the information above, If I attempt to set the necessary permission for a specific file, I receive the following:
Error calling POST https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/{somefileid} permissions: (403) Insufficient permissions for this file
This error only occurs for google accounts tied to a google apps for edu setup where the admin has unchecked the option Google Apps -> Settings for Drive -> Share Settings -> Outside this organization: "Allow users to publish files on the web or make them visible to the world as public or unlisted files"
Using the Permission feed works fine otherwise, but ideally I would like to know if there is a way to check for this setting beforehand, instead of catching the 403 exception from the drive service.
You can use the About.get() endpoint to get details about the user's Drive, including this sharing setting. The field domainSharingPolicy can have the values allowed, allowedWithWarning, incomingOnly and disallowed. The first two in that list should allow publishing outside the domain, while the second two should not.
I have to develop a web site where only registered and accepted members will have access to my GDrive space in specific personal folders I created, one folder for each member. I want all members to access their Gdrive folder from a login page in the web site.
I have a database where I store Username and Password from the registration process, and want to give permission to the folder associated to every members based on that username and password. The Gdrive Share process, as it is, is not working for my purpose.
You will need to use the Google Drive API.
I have created a service account for use with the Google Drive API as outlined here:
https://developers.google.com/drive/delegation
After all the reading I've done, my impression is that this service account should act on behalf of the actual account which is part of the Google Apps for Business domain being used.
With that, I would expect that no special permissions would be needed to be dealt with when dealing with Google Drive folders. However, after authenticating and trying to list the contents of a folder, nothing is shown.
If I add the service account email address specifically to the "share" list for the folder, everything seems to work as intended. I can list the files in the folder using the API.
My question is, is this the way it's supposed to be or am I missing something that would allow the service account to access folders on behalf of the actual account without having to specifically add the service account email address to the share list?
Thank you for your time.
You need to impersonate the user with his/her email. Go through the steps explained on https://developers.google.com/drive/delegation and use the snippets below for further coding reference.
I have a web app in php mysql, I want to use one google drive account for my app.
Can I use my app's accounts instead of google users for privilages.
I read in SDK I can use service account to login without promting user, but I don't know how to share or give permissions files for custom users.
In api reference I found this:
"The user is not necessarily yet a Google user (e.g. if a file or folder is shared with an email address that does not yet have an associated Google account). Example: 1111459233037698895607".
How a custom user in my app should get a token for own privilages.
I am not exactly sure what you want to achieve here, but if you want to use your own permission system, you can't. You can, however, apply read/write/owner permissions to files to mirror your own permissions.
If I have totally got the wrong idea, please explain.