Google drive with python
I’m working on auto-archiver which is written in Python.
Currently the cloud storage used is Digital Ocean Spaces. I’m putting in a feature flag to use Google Drive instead.
Secrets are held in the .env
file
They use Google Speadsheets already in the application which necessitates Google Drive API access . See 1. Getting API access to the sheet
Google Drive using Service Account
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/quickstart/python
https://blog.benjames.io/2020/09/13/authorise-your-python-google-drive-api-the-easy-way/
Share a folder with the service account eg autoarchiverservice@auto-archiver-xxxxx.iam.gserviceaccount.com
This allows me to read and write to the shared folder on the google drive account (in the is case it is my personal google drive) from the service account.
ie I can see a shared folder_id I can then write inside that folder.
Code
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/manage-uploads
https://github.com/googleworkspace/python-samples/blob/master/drive/quickstart/quickstart.py Samples
Uploading a file
https://github.com/iterative/PyDrive2 - could use this.
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/search-files API docs
https://github.com/googleworkspace/python-samples/tree/master/drive/driveapp
Appendix - Google Console
https://console.cloud.google.com/ - where you allow access
https://admin.google.com/ is used for Google Workspace accounts only
Appendix - Google Drive Desktop
Using Google Drive Desktop you can view all your files as a linked drive G:
in Windows Explorer.
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