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.
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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
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
For Google Drive API, the drive.file scope seems to give only access to the files created by the app. Is there a scope for Google Drive that gives access to the entire drive? Thanks
You may refer with this documentation. Full access to all files in the user's Drive (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive) may be necessary for some apps. An app designed to sync files, for instance, needs this level of access to Drive. Apps with special needs related to listing or reorganizing files might need full scope.
Check the sample code in this GitHub page.
Try this scope :
Google Drive
This will bring Full permissive scope to access all of a user's files
I want to upload files to google drive. I'm using C# and have referred following links to get started
https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/quickstart/dotnet
https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/manage-uploads
I'm able to upload the file successfully to google drive but my main concern is I don't want to display any sort of UI/human interaction. It should be able to automatically upload the file.
Using OAuth2.0 there is a need that we have to manage and generate access/refresh token. I have no idea how these should be managed.
Isn't there any other way where the user can have access to google drive programmatically just by sharing his/her Gmail account username/password to achieve this?
Isn't there any other way where the user can have access to google drive programmatically just by sharing his/her Gmail account username/password to achieve this?
No there is not
The user needs to authorise your app one time. After that, you can save Refresh Token and use that for future unattended use.
I want to create a web app letting any user upload a file to my Google drive and then be able to view it through the browser.
So far looking at Google's examples it seems I have to auth to my Google Drive on the server side (makes sense....) but also end-users have to auth before uploading anything to my drive using Oauth. Is there a way to prevent having to ask users to authenticate prior to uploading documents given that I am authorized through my server to my Google Drive account?
Allowing anyone to view a document is more straightforward through the use of a public folder...