I am dealing with mobile and desktop applications. I am trying to use Google Drive as a permanent storage folder. Unfortunately I am at a loss because I cannot find any examples. Can someone point me at an example of storing or retrieving a file from Google Drive?
I would really like to see a simple example in code or maybe a library which can handle this. I am stuck at Retrieve and Use OAuth 2.0 Credentials https://developers.google.com/drive/credentials
Did you look at the sample app on the drive API page?
edit
google moved the examples to github
I don't know if I figured out your problem. What I have understood is that you are looking for a way that makes you able to work on the same project from different computers.
If so, you simply have to download Drive. Once install it will ask you what folder you want to keep syncronized with Drive. If you select your workspace, it will be syncronized with Drive. So, on another pc, if you have installed Drive, you will be able to use the workspace folder too, with the same files.
I hope this is helpful.
Marco
You should look into Documents List API.
The Google Drive API & SDK are meant to be a mean to integrate applications into the Web-UI of Google Drive. To protect the security of the user's files, it puts some restrictions to the application developer, like:
The app has to be installed from the Chrome Web Store
The app can only access files created from the app itself,
or files selected by the user using the Google Picker UI.
All these restrictions make the Google Drive API not a good choice for most non-web applications.
E.g. installing the app from the Chrome Web Store is probably something you would find cumbersome to request from your users for a mobile or desktop application. Nonetheless, without being installed from the Chrome Web Store your application will always receive an error when accessing a file from Google Drive.
The Documents List API allows you to store and load files (not only Google Documents!) into Google Drive.
This question is a little bit old, still. You can look at this example: https://code.google.com/p/google-api-dotnet-client/wiki/OAuth2
They do the OAuth2 for accessing task. But I just used the same code to access the files using the v2 API. http://code.google.com/p/google-api-dotnet-client/wiki/APIs#Drive_API
I only retrieved the file list, but it is working (from .NET, desktop app).
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I am trying and failing to download a single file from a "open for public" dropbox folder which a 3rd party created for others to use. I am trying to use this within my Ruby On Rails Application (file is changing but folder stays the same all the time).
I want to:
List all files in that public folder
Make sure that there is only this one file
... and this file has the appropriate filename (ending in .xlsx in my case -> an Excel file)
Download the file (e.g. using RestClient gem)
Save as an attachment to a new database record (Record is existing already and is used inside the app)
Thanks for any hints on how to proceed here! I Than plan to update the file with a cron-job daily.
Its kind of an API to the public :-)
Thought there must be a simple gem to interact with dropbox folders but couldnt't find any.
I used Rest-Client to open the dropbox folder and Nokogiri to parse the content but cant work through the glibberish produced. I gave up after an hour of work and decided to ask here!
Dropbox does offer a public Dropbox API, but it doesn't offer an official SDK for Ruby in particular, but you can either use the Dropbox API HTTPS endpoints directly, or via a third party library if there is one that works for your use case.
Exactly how you would accomplish this would depend on the specifics of the scenario so you may want to read through some guides first to get started, e.g.: Getting Started and File Access.
For instance, depending on how you have access to the content (e.g., directly via a folder in a connected account, or via a shared link, etc.) some of the following endpoints may be useful:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-download
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder-continue
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_metadata
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_file
The Dropbox API v2 Explorer can also be a useful tool for trying out Dropbox API calls.
I am working on a class project where we're working with a large dataset in Google Colabs. Notably, the file is not saved if the runtime disconnects. I thus downloaded the dataset to my personal drive, but am struggling to get it accessible to the Colabs project. I also can't just mount my drive because there are other people working on this.
Is there some way to download a link-sharing=on drive file in Colabs?
A way to save the trained model would also be useful, but the same issue of sharing it and the saved files still applies.
There are 2 ways that I know.
If you only want to share with your friends, not making it public, you can share via google drive. Each friend will need to auth.authenticate_user() and then use pydrive to load the file given its FILE_ID.
If you can make it public, it's even easier. Anyone can download the file with
!gdown --id xxxxxxxxx
Where xxxxxxx is the FILE_ID.
I've been searching for weeks on stackoverflow and google, but I wasn't able to find any good results.
I have a pdf file on my computer and I want to access that pdf file from an ios app, by clicking a link which will take me to that pdf file.
And when I modify that pdf file on my computer I want the link in the app to update with the latest version of that pdf file.
I thought of using a backend for storage such as Firebase storage but I had some issues with that.
How can I access that pdf file from an app? It doesn't have to be through a link, anything that will allow access with the latest version of the file is fine.
I appreciate any suggestions.
Thank You
The simplest way may be using a cloud storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive...etc and get the public share link to that file. Then you can load the PDF in your iOS app using this link.
You can do this using web services API, You need to create simple webservice in backend (in any language for example PHP) to get the list of file with path to access in mobile app, and configure backend webservice code to your server (your computer, wherever you want to update files), So you can get every time updated data (files path) using webservice.
I've built an integration using the Google Docs API (using GData) allowing users to create/edit documents from another application. Originally, when documents were deleted we would have them permanently deleted. They were no longer visible in Google Docs or Google Drive. Now when they are deleted using the Google Docs API, they are still present in the list of Documents in Google Drive. When you attempt to follow the link to the document you arrive at the "Sorry, the page (or document) you have requested does not exist." page.
Does Google Drive not honor the actions taken via the Google Docs API? Do I need to delete these documents using both the Google Docs API and the Google Drive API? What if the user has not migrated to Google Drive? Is there a way to tell if the have migrated? Or do I force them to migrate so I can use the Google Drive API to keep their Google Drive clean of these dead documents?
The Drive API and the Docs List API both operate on the same resources so you only have to use one of them (and we recommend the former).
With the Drive API you can trash or delete files. When you trash a file, it will still be listed in Google Drive with a label to mark it as in trash, so that you can still untrash it.
If you want to remove a file completely, you have to use the delete method.
I was having the same problem and I believe this is some kind of caching on the drive UI.
The file does appear to be deleted correctly and is not visible to the drive API.
The orphaned stubs eventually get deleted as the cache is cleared every so often.
I found that by removing the file from the parent and then deleting it meant that it was easier to see what was going on when using the drive UI whilst testing my app.
service.children().delete(folderId=parent_id, childId=file_id).execute()
service.files().delete(fileId=file_id).execute()
I was facing the same problem while using Google Drive APIs. I think when the Delete api deletes the document, their is still some linking with parent folder remains, so the browser renders the document. when I tired to delete the document with below piece of code, it properly works for me.
DriveService.Childern.Delete(parentResId, fileId).Fetch(); // fileId=>ResourceId of document to be deleted
This is a caching issue, the file has actually been removed. If you try to open the file in the Drive UI you should see something along the lines of "Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist."
It will clear itself soon.
I'm currently writing a mobile app (hopefully iOS or android) using the jquery mobile framework and phonegap.
It'll need to export/send csv files in some way to the users, but I'd be interested to hear ideas or suggestions about the best way of doing so. If this can be done on the js side of the app that'd be ideal as it's what I'm most familiar with. A couple of options I've considered are:
Uploading the file using the google docs api
Writing the file to the file system (then export e.g. via iTunes)
I'm new to this so any suggestions gratefully received! Thanks for your help
There are a few options that you could use depending on how you want it to work.
The main options would be to
Use the File API (http://docs.phonegap.com/phonegap_file_file.md.html#File) to store files on the filesystem of the device.
Upload the file to a server using a standard XMLHttpRequest.
Write a native PhoneGap plugin on each platform that you are interested in that could connect to Google docs.
As Dave pointed out you can write files with the FILE API. I have used the file api on iOs to write custom log files and havent found any yikes so far.