GoogleDrive Python API

Lets you upload files and folders to google drive assuming one has registered on developers.google and has client_secrets.json

Instructions

• After downloading the client_secrets.json do

export DRIVE_SECRET_PATH=$FILEPATH_TO_SECRETS.json

• Rename settings_template.yaml to settings.yaml
• Copy clientId and clientSecret from client_secrets.json to respective fields in settings.yaml
• It will ask for one time verification, for subsequent runs, the parameters will be taken from creds.json
• If you are running on a server where verification on browser is not possible, create a ssh tunnel

ssh -N -L localhost:$MACHINE_PORT_NO:localhost:$SERVER_PORT_NO username@server-ip

Script for uploading a file

python drive.py --upload-file --parent-id $DRIVE_FOLDER_ID --file-name $FILENAME --upload-name $UPLOADNAME --file-path $DIRPATH

• DRIVE_FOLDER_ID: Id that you will find on the url for the parent-folder where you want to upload a new file
• FILENAME: name of the file you want to upload
• DIRPATH: Path to directory where the file is
• UPLOADNAME: Name of the file that will appear on drive

Script for uploading a folder

python drive.py --upload-folder --parent-id $DRIVE_FOLDER_ID --folder-name $UPLOADNAME --folder-path $FOLDERPATH

• DRIVE_FOLDER_ID: Id that you will find on the url for the parent-folder where you want to upload a new folder
• UPLOADNAME: name of the folder to be uploaded that will appear on the drive
• FOLDERPATH: Path to the folder which you want to upload

Script for downloading a file

python drive.py --download-file --file-id $DRIVE_FILE_ID --file-path $FOLDERPATH

• DRIVE_FILE_ID: Id of the file to be downloaded
• FOLDERPATH: Path to the folder where the file is to be saved

References

• https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/pydrive-to-download-from-google-drive-to-a-remote-machine-14c2d086e84e
• https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/how-to-connect-google-drive-to-python-using-pydrive-9681b2a14f20

Done List

• ✅ Recursively upload folders and files
• ✅ Add settings.yaml
• ✅ No verification for subsequent runs
• ✅ Upload file
• ✅ Upload folder
• ✅ Download file

To Do List

• ⬜️ Script to list files in a folder
• ⬜️ Script to update files
• ⬜️ Script to delete files