Is there a way to list only files with a particular extension?
I tried "title contains '.mm'" but this returns no results, although there is a file like that in Drive. I also tried "mimeType = 'application/vnd.google.drive.ext-type.mm', no luck as well.
You should use:
fileExtension = 'mm'
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Good afternoon. I am currently working on a project and I need to use python to get all the image_ids of the images in a folder. I have tried to use
query = f"parents = '{folder_id}'"
files = service.files().list(q=query).execute()
but for some reason this returns an id which is different to the real image id you can find in drive. Any tips?
Answer:
Your query parameter is malformed.
More Information:
The q parameter needs to be rewritten as:
'folderId' in parents and mimeType='image/jpeg'
where folderId is the ID of the folder in which you wish to search.
The q parameter allows you to specify properties of the files you are trying to list - so you're saying here "List all files that have a mimetype of image/jpeg, where folderId is contained in its list of parents."
Im suprised that works at all since parents use in not =
Example
To return all the files in the folder.
parents in '{folder_id}'
This would give you all the jpeg files on your drive
mimeType='image/jpeg'
You can put them both together using and
parents in 'root' and mimeType='image/jpeg'
I want to get documents/spreadsheets/presentations alone from drive.I used search query q parameter to get documents based on mimeType, but using this I can able to get only one particular mimetype files.Drive supports two mimetypes for spreadsheets
1.application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
2.application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
There is no or operator to form a query.Can anyone help me to get a solution for this?
There is an OR operator. Use mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet' or mimeType = 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet' to query your files.
The query string in try it section does not work 12 hours ago.
My query string is mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder'
Anyway not work with any query.
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/children/list
Please tellme why??
I'm having the same issue:
child.Q = "mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder' and title contains 'SomeDocuments'"
Dim cl As ChildList = child.Fetch
it returns all the documents like there was no filter
Maybe something change on Google Drive API?
Update
I can't find anything from Google, I wrote a feedback in the child list page.
The only workaround so far is instead of using the children.list use the file.list method and in the q section add the - 'folderid' in parents - search term to emulate searching on childrens of the parent folder.
The drawback is it will only search for document that has folderid as parent, not sub-folders like children.list method do.
Update 2
Looks like Google fixed it!
Happy coding.
Following the doc https://developers.google.com/drive/search-parameters on search parameters, I can combine parameters with and. mimeType-s can be tested with =. Can I extract multiple mime types files in one query? No or operator in the doc or if I can use contains for mimeType.
I feel it's worth noting that demi's last comment is correct I was able to specify a subset of mimtypes as follows:
(mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder' or
mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.file' or
mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet')
Hope that helps anyone else looking at this question in the future as it is not clear in the documentation.
There is no or operator for now. However, you can use batch call for Drive API to achieve same goal. This will merge multiple queries into one.
UPDATE: Please refer to Luke's comment below.
You can list all the files and folders by adding this (mimeType contains 'application/vnd.google-apps.document' or mimeType contains 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder') in q parameter.
Your URL will be looks like this -
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?q=(mimeType%20contains%20%27application%2Fvnd.google-apps.document%27%20or%20mimeType%20contains%20%27application%2Fvnd.google-apps.folder%27)
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?key=YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY&q=(mimeType='application/pdf' or mimeType='image/png') and trashed = false and 'GOOGLE_DRIVE_FOLDER_ID' in parents
I have a list of file ids that I want to refresh with up-to-date metadata. I know there is a file/get method that I could call for each file, but it's obviously not the right way to deal with it if we have many files.
So I've looked for the file/list and its "q" parameter to make a search query. Unfortunately, it looks like it doesn't accept the "id IN (?, ?)" format.
So is there a clever way to do this?
You could wrap all of the file/get/put calls into a single batch.
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/#batching_resource_operations_into_a_single_request
You can add all those files to a specific folder and then search for them using the parents field of a search query, as in:
'1234567' in parents
that returns all files that are contained in the folder with ID 1234567.
Is there a reason you need to download the items before you update them?
Given you have the file ID, you can simply PUT your changes.