gdrive-upload

Upload file to specific folder using Google Drive API

Getting Start :

1. Clone this code for local copy

git clone https://github.com/TheGU/gdrive-upload.git and go to cloned folder cd gdrive-upload

2. Obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials from the Google Developers Console.

Visit the Google Developers Console to obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials such as a client ID and client secret that are known to both Google and your application. Choose option to download it as JSON format and save to client_secret.json in gdrive-upload folder as this code.

or follow step 1 in this guideline. We will use this key as web service token

3. Install require package

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Test upload file to specific folder

At this point your folder structure should be

- upload.py
- client_secret.json
- gdrive_upload/
 |- gdrive_authen.py
 |- gdrive_uploader.py
 |- ...

You can test upload or see example on how to use this code by command line helper script upload.py. For example:

python upload.py -i /path/to/file/image.png -o new-image-name.png -f foldername

Option

'-i ' : full path or relative path to source file to upload
'-o ' : [Optional] target filename on gdrive, if none, use same name as source filename
'-f ' : [Optional] Set target folder name (from root) to store file in. If not exist, this folder will create under root folder on gdrive. if none, store on root folder
'-s' : [Optional] Call this flag if you want to use service account instead of user account. If this flag is set you must have service account store in file service_secret.json for script to call.

Run for the first time

If it run for the first time, it will show you an url to obtain key to create token to access Google drive. The script will auto create local server to intercept code to create token.

But if your script cannot connect to Google, use --noauth_local_webserver in command line to force it to tell Google to display code that will let you copy and paste to your script manually.

python upload.py --noauth_local_webserver -i /path/to/file/image.png -o new-image-name.png -f foldername

Copy that link and open it in your browser. It'll ask you to login to your google account then ask for access to your google drive. After accept the permissions it will show a code then pass that code to your script and hit enter.

It will save the credential and token to local folder. So, next time you call this script it will not ask for permission again. A file will start upload and show progress bar and speed.

Supported versions

Write and test on python 2.7, 3.6 on windows 7 and ubuntu 14.04