How to upload a file using the google drive api and when the file is getting opened it will not show a restriction message and allow any user to open it.
For example I have this URL
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cvmvU-Tz66Z7x3ukHqLgoB9BY9pxftrn/view?usp=drivesdk
That was uploaded from the app but it got restricted.
You have the control to share files from Google Drive and upload files and folders to Google Drive.
You can share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive
with anyone in your work or school, but your organization may limit
how you can share files with other people.
Also, you can visit this help forum post on to what extent you can allow everyone to upload in your drive.
Additional reference: Drive API Documentation
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I want to upload files from my server to my users's google drive storage, after they authenticate, the questions are:
Is it possible to do that?
Do I have to re-authenticate the user every time they like to upload a new file?
Could I embed the uploaded MP4 files in my website? (using the html video source as the file's download link of the user's google drive account)
do I need to re-authenticate the user if they just want to see the embedded videos some time later, in other words, is there anyway I could save some sort of a Token so they don't keep doing that.
Is it possible to do that?
Yes
Do I have to re-authenticate the user every time they like to upload a new file?
No, store a refresh token for the user and they wont need to authenticate each time.
Could I embed the uploaded MP4 files in my website? (using the html video source as the file's download link of the user's google drive account)
I wouldn't recommend it google drive isn't really designed for hosting of files in this manner that and people would need access to the file to download it anyway, its a big can of worms.
do I need to re-authenticate the user if they just want to see the embedded videos some time later, in other words, is there anyway I could save some sort of a Token so they don't keep doing that.
Yes as mentioned if the files are uploaded to your drive account you own them. You would need to share the files with anyone that you want to have access to them. You could set the files to public but thats not the best way to go about this.
Reference
Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs
Is there a way to download files from a specific google drive, by using the google drive api? Currently i can only read the drive of the google user logged in.
Inorder to access data owned by someone on Google drive you need their permission. You can't just access my files unless I let you. The most common method for this is oauth2 but you can also use a service account.
Now if I set a file to public you would be able to read it using an API key but I would have to give you the file id.
Many large zip-files are uploaded to my google drive. Before downloading I need to preview this zip-archive for understanding what files are in it.
On Google Drive website I can preview zip-archive and see files\directories list.
Is it possible if I use Google Drive API?
Thank you a lot!
We have been working on a web service (http://www.genomespace.org/) that allows computational biology tools that implement our REST API to, among other things, read and write files stored on "The Cloud".
Our default file storage is a common Amazon S3 bucket, but we now allow users to mount their own private S3 bucket as well as files on Dropbox.
We are now trying to enable similar functionality for Google Drive and have run into some problems unique to Google Drive that we have not encountered with S3 or Dropbox.
Only way to allow clients that are not Google-authenticated to read files unobtrusively is to make the files "Public". Our preference would be that once the user has authorized access to our application via OAuth2, the user files could remain "Private" in Google Drive.
However, even though the user has already authorized our web service to offline access to their "Private" files, we have not found a way to generate a URL that a client authorized by our system can use to GET the file directly without the client being logged into Google as well.
The closest we have come to this functionality has been to change the file permissions to "Anyone with Link", except that for files greater than 20MB Google insists on returning an intermediate web page warning that the file has not been scanned for viruses. In addition to having to mess with file permissions, this would break our existing clients. Only when the file is "Public" and we utilize URLs of the form https://googledrive.com/host/PARENT_FOLDER_ID/FILENAME can non-Google clients read the files without interference.
Have not found any way for clients that are not Google-authenticated to upload a file to Google Drive. Our API allows our authorized clients to PUT files directly to the backing file storage using URLs provided by our server. However, even if a folder is marked "Public", the client requires Google authentication credentials to save to Google Drive. We could deal with both of these issues with intermediate hops through our system (e.g., our web server would first download the file from Google Drive and then allow the client to GET it) however this would be woefully inefficient and, hopefully, unnecessary. These problems have been discussed multiple times before on stackoverflow (e.g. here and here and have read the responses very carefully, but have not seen any recent discussion.
The Google folks direct their API users to post on stackoverflow for support, so I am hoping for a fresh look from insiders.
The general answer is: dont make the drive requests through the user's browser. Insead do everything from your servers. You are the one having the (refresh) tokens for users, so you should make all requests like a proxy between the user and Drive. Same for downloading, you download it and return to the user. As long as you use each drive's token there shouldnt be rate limit/quota issues.
Im using drive api sample code for accessing google drive files in my app.But i cannot access the files that were shared with me.Do i need to change scope of google drive api in ios to access all files shared with me?
To get a list of the files shared with you, you can use the drive.files.list request with the sharedWithMe filter.