#Enable Google Drive Api Download Your Credentials#
#Enable Google Drive Api Download Stored Files#

Enable Google Drive Api Download Stored Files

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can list your Google drive files, search over them, download stored files, and even upload local files into your drive programmatically using Python.Google account, access to the google cloud platform Set up with Google cloud Enable google drive API. The example will be done in Python for brevity and availability, but you can also choose to.Google Drive enables you to store your files in the cloud in which you can access anytime and everywhere in the world. Navigate to each Google Drive account that you wish to crawl.This codelab introduces you to using Google Workspace REST APIs. Allow sharing for your files and folders. Search for Google Drive API and click Enable (or Manage ). In Google APIs console, navigate to the API Dashboard and select Enable APIs and Services (if APIs have not previously been enabled).

Enable Google Drive Api Download Your Credentials

It basically looks for token.pickle file to authenticate with your Google account, if it didn't find it, it'll use credentials.json to prompt you for authentication in your browser. List Files and DirectoriesBefore we do anything, we need to authenticate our code to our Google account, the below function does that: import pickleFrom googleapiclient.discovery import buildFrom google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlowFrom google.auth.transport.requests import Request# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.# The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is# created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the firstWith open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:# If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.If creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:Flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(With open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:Return build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)We've imported the necessary modules, the above function was grabbed from Google Drive quickstart page. After that, you'll see another window appear saying you're all set:Download your credentials by clicking the 'Download Client Configuration' button and then hit 'Done'.Finally, you need to put credentials.json that is just downloaded into your working directories (i.e where you execute the upcoming Python scripts).