The flow of my desired program is:
Upload an xlsx spreadsheet to drive (it was created using pandas to_excel)
Convert it to Google Sheets format
Specify that it is editable by anyone with the link
Get the link and share it with someone who will enter information
Download the completed sheet
I am currently using PyDrive, which solves steps 1 and 5, but there are a few unsolved problems.
How can I convert to google sheets format? I tried to just specify the mimeType as 'application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet' when I created the file to upload with PyDrive, but that gave me an error.
How can I set the file to be editable by anyone with the link? Once that is set, I can get the sharing link easily enough with PyDrive.
UPDATE: conversion from xlsx to google sheets is easy with a convert=True flag. See below. I am still seeking a way to set the sharing settings of my new file to "anyone with the link can edit".
from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)
test_file = drive.CreateFile({'title': 'testfile.xlsx'})
test_file.SetContentFile('testfile.xlsx')
test_file.Upload({'convert': True})
There is an Optional query parameter of "convert", for both the "INSERT" and "COPY" method;
convert=true,
Whether to convert this file to the corresponding Google Docs format. (Default: false)
There is a python example here:
Google Documentation - Copy
You need to use the Python client library for the code to work.
from apiclient import errors
from apiclient.http import MediaFileUpload
# ...
def insert_file(service, title, description, parent_id, mime_type, filename):
"""Insert new file.
Args:
service: Drive API service instance.
title: Title of the file to insert, including the extension.
description: Description of the file to insert.
parent_id: Parent folder's ID.
mime_type: MIME type of the file to insert.
filename: Filename of the file to insert.
Returns:
Inserted file metadata if successful, None otherwise.
"""
media_body = MediaFileUpload(filename, mimetype=mime_type, resumable=True)
body = {
'title': title,
'description': description,
'mimeType': mime_type
}
# Set the parent folder.
if parent_id:
body['parents'] = [{'id': parent_id}]
try:
file = service.files().insert(
body=body,
convert=true,
media_body=media_body).execute()
# Uncomment the following line to print the File ID
# print 'File ID: %s' % file['id']
return file
except errors.HttpError, error:
print 'An error occured: %s' % error
return None
I haven't tried this, so you'll need to test it.
In order to set the file to be editable for anyone with the link , you have to insert a new permission with the following information:
from apiclient import errors
# ...
def share_with_anyone(service, file_id):
"""Shares the file with anyone with the link
Args:
service: Drive API service instance.
file_id: ID of the file to insert permission for.
Returns:
The inserted permission if successful, None otherwise.
"""
new_permission = {
'type': "anyone",
'role': "writer",
'withLink': True
}
try:
return service.permissions().insert(
fileId=file_id, body=new_permission).execute()
except errors.HttpError, error:
print 'An error occurred: %s' % error
return None
then to get the link you go to : file["alternateLink"]
Related
I exported some images from Google Earth Engine to Google Drive. I need to download those images to a local drive using a Python script. Then, I tried to use oauth2client, apiclient as I saw here:
I got a list of files in Drive and the corresponding IDs, then I use the ID to try to download the file using the gdown lib:
gdown.download(f'https://drive.google.com/uc?id={file_data["id"]}',
f'{download_path}{os.sep}{filename_to_download}.tif')
I got the following error message:
Access denied with the following error:
Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change
the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses.
You may still be able to access the file from the browser:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=<id>
As I got the Drive file list, I suppose that the Drive authentication is ok. If I use the error message suggested link in the browser, I can download the file. If a check file properties at Drive, I can see:
Who can access: not shared.
What should I do to download the files?
This is the complete code:
# https://medium.com/swlh/google-drive-api-with-python-part-i-set-up-credentials-1f729cb0372b
# https://levelup.gitconnected.com/google-drive-api-with-python-part-ii-connect-to-google-drive-and-search-for-file-7138422e0563
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38511444/python-download-files-from-google-drive-using-url
import os
from apiclient import discovery
from httplib2 import Http
from oauth2client import client, file, tools
import gdown
class GoogleDrive(object):
# define API scope
def __init__(self, secret_credentials_file_path = './credentials'):
self.DriveFiles = None
SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'
self.store = file.Storage(f'{secret_credentials_file_path}{os.sep}credentials.json')
self.credentials = self.store.get()
if not self.credentials or self.credentials.invalid:
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(f'{secret_credentials_file_path}{os.sep}client_secret.json',
SCOPE)
self.credentials = tools.run_flow(flow, self.store)
oauth_http = self.credentials.authorize(Http())
self.drive = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http=oauth_http)
def RetrieveAllFiles(self):
results = []
page_token = None
while True:
try:
param = {}
if page_token:
param['pageToken'] = page_token
files = self.drive.files().list(**param).execute()
# append the files from the current result page to our list
results.extend(files.get('files'))
# Google Drive API shows our files in multiple pages when the number of files exceed 100
page_token = files.get('nextPageToken')
if not page_token:
break
except Exception as error:
print(f'An error has occurred: {error}')
break
self.DriveFiles = results
def GetFileData(self, filename_to_search):
for file_data in self.DriveFiles:
if file_data.get('name') == filename_to_search:
return file_data
else:
return None
def DownloadFile(self, filename_to_download, download_path):
file_data = self.GetFileData(f'{filename_to_download}.tif')
gdown.download(f'https://drive.google.com/uc?id={file_data["id"]}',
f'{download_path}{os.sep}{filename_to_download}.tif')
Google drive may not be the best tool for this, you may want to upload them into a RAW file hosting service like Imgur and download it to a file using requests, you can then read the file using the script or you don't even have to write it to the file and just use image.content instead to specify the image. Here's an example:
image = requests.get("https://i.imgur.com/5SMNGtv.png")
with open("image.png", 'wb') as file:
file.write(image.content)
(You can specify the location of where you want the file to download by adding the PATH before the file name, like this:)
image = requests.get("https://i.imgur.com/5SMNGtv.png")
with open("C://Users//Admin//Desktop//image.png", 'wb') as file:
file.write(image.content)
Solution 1.
Access denied with the following error:
Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change
the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses.
You may still be able to access the file from the browser:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=<id>
In the sharing tab on gdrive (Right click on image, open Share or Get link), please change privacy to anyone with the link. Hopefully your code should work.
Solution 2.
If you can use Google Colab, then you can mount gdrive easily and access files there using
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/gdrive')
Google has this policy that they do not accept your regular google-/gmail-password. They only accept so called "App Passwords" that you need to create for your google-account in order to authenticate if you are using thirdparty apps
I need to upload an image string (as the one you get from requests.get(url).content) to google drive using the PyDrive package. I checked a similar question but the answer accepted there was to save it in a temporary file on a local drive and then upload that.
However, I cannot do that because of local storage and permission restrictions.
The accepted answer was previously to use SetContentString(image_string.decode('utf-8')) since
SetContentString requires a parameter of type str not bytes.
However the error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: invalid start byte came up, as in the comments on that answer.
Is there any way to do this without using a temporary file, using PIL/BytesIO/anything that can convert it to be uploaded correctly as a string or somehow using PIL manipulated as an image and uploaded using SetContentFile()?
A basic example of what I'm trying to do is:
img_content = requests.get('https://i.imgur.com/A5gIh7W.jpeg')
file = drive.CreateFile({...})
file.setContentString(img_content.decode('utf-8'))
file.Upload()
When I saw the document (Upload and update file content) of pydrive, it says as follows.
Managing file content is as easy as managing file metadata. You can set file content with either SetContentFile(filename) or SetContentString(content) and call Upload() just as you did to upload or update file metadata.
And, I searched about the method for directly uploading the binary data to Google Drive. But, I couldn't find it. From this situation, I thought that there might not be such method. So, in this answer, I would like to propose to upload the binary data using requests module. In this case, the access token is retrieved from the authorization script of pydrive. The sample script is as follows.
Sample script:
from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
import io
import json
import requests
url = 'https://i.imgur.com/A5gIh7W.jpeg' # Please set the direct link of the image file.
filename = 'sample file' # Please set the filename on Google Drive.
folder_id = 'root' # Please set the folder ID. The file is put to this folder.
gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
metadata = {
"name": filename,
"parents": [folder_id]
}
files = {
'data': ('metadata', json.dumps(metadata), 'application/json'),
'file': io.BytesIO(requests.get(url).content)
}
r = requests.post(
"https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + gauth.credentials.access_token},
files=files
)
print(r.text)
Note:
In this script, it supposes that your URL is the direct link of the image file. Please be careful this.
In this case, uploadType=multipart is used. The official document says as follows. Ref
Use this upload type to quickly transfer a small file (5 MB or less) and metadata that describes the file, in a single request. To perform a multipart upload, refer to Perform a multipart upload.
When you want to upload the data of the large size, please use the resumable upload. Ref
References:
Upload and update file content of pydrive
Upload file data of Drive API
I'm working on a python script that would manage a file on a shared drive using Google Drive API v3. However, when I try to download or replace that file, I get the following error:
An error occurred: <HttpError 404 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files/1HhCxshcR17I4rM0gtBIvHzEH_jzd7nV2?alt=json&uploadType=multipart returned "File not found: 1HhCxshcR17I4rM0gtBIvHzEH_jzd7nV2.">
Here is my code
def update_file(service, file_id, new_title, new_description, new_mime_type,
new_filename):
"""Update an existing file's metadata and content.
Args:
service: Drive API service instance.
file_id: ID of the file to update.
new_title: New title for the file.
new_description: New description for the file.
new_mime_type: New MIME type for the file.
new_filename: Filename of the new content to upload.
new_revision: Whether or not to create a new revision for this file.
Returns:
Updated file metadata if successful, None otherwise.
"""
try:
# File metadata
file_metadata = {
'name': new_title,
'description': new_description
}
# File's new content.
media_body = MediaFileUpload(
new_filename, mimetype=new_mime_type) # In this case the file is small so no resumable flag needed
# Send the request to the API.
updated_file = service.files().update(
fileId=file_id,
body=file_metadata,
media_body=media_body).execute()
return updated_file
except Exception as e:
print ('An error occurred: %s' % e)
return None
#Update an existing entry in database
def updateItem(dataIndex):
userInput = input(header[2]) #Update quantity
if userInput[0] == '+':
ws['C' + str(dataIndex)] = str( int(ws['C' + str(dataIndex)].value) + int(userInput[1:]) )
elif userInput[0] == '-':
ws['C' + str(dataIndex)] = str( int(ws['C' + str(dataIndex)].value) - int(userInput[1:]) )
else:
ws['C' + str(dataIndex)] = str( userInput )
ws['D' + str(dataIndex)] = today #Update date
wb.save(filepath)
How do I use Google Drive API on a shared drive or document? This works fine in my personal drive.
If you want to use the file of file_id in your shared Drive with files().update() in Drive API v3, how about the following modification?
Modified script:
updated_file = service.files().update(
fileId=file_id,
body=file_metadata,
media_body=media_body,
supportsAllDrives=True # <--- Added
).execute()
The default value of supportsAllDrives is false. So in this case, true is used for using the file in the shared Drive.
Reference:
Files: update
I'm able to create a new folder within a parent folder on my personal Google Drive, but when I try to do it in a shared drive, I get this error:
<HttpError 404 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?fields=id&alt=json returned "File not found:
It looks like a similar problem from this question, which wasn't resolved.
I'm a manager on the account, and other commands, such as creating new files, work fine.
This is the function I'm successfully using when writing to my personal Drive:
def create_folder_in_folder(folder_name,parent_folder_id):
file_metadata = {
'name' : folder_name,
'parents' : [parent_folder_id],
'mimeType' : 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder'
}
file = service.files().create(body=file_metadata,
fields='id').execute()
print ('Folder ID: %s' % file.get('id'))
How about this modification?
From:
file = service.files().create(body=file_metadata, fields='id').execute()
To:
file = service.files().create(body=file_metadata, supportsAllDrives=True, fields='id').execute()
supportsAllDrives=True is added.
I think that the reason of the error message is due to this.
Note:
In this case, it supposes that you have the permission for creating the folder to the shared Drive.
Reference:
Files: create
I have been successfully uploading files to a google-drive-folder with PyDrive. But, when it comes to uploading files to a folder in a google-drive-teamdrive-folder which is shared with me, the following code is not working.
from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)
location_to_save = "D:\images"
mImageLoc = location_to_save + "\\abcd.jpg"
#[...Code to fetch and save the file as abcd.jpg ...]
gfolder_id = "1H1gjBKcpiHJtnXKVxWQEC1CS8t4Gswjj" #This is a google drive folder id. I am replacing this with a teamdrive folder id, but that does not work
gfile_title = mImageLoc.split("\\")[-1] # returns abcd.jpg
http = gdrive.auth.Get_Http_Object()
f = gdrive.CreateFile({"parents": [{"kind": "drive#fileLink", "id": gfolder_id}],
'title': gfile_title})
f.SetContentFile(mImageLoc)
f.Upload(param={"http": http})
The error message I am recieving is: pydrive.files.ApiRequestError: <HttpError 404 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v2/files?alt=json&uploadType=resumable returned "File not found: 0AG-N4DqGC1nbUk9PVA">
'0AG-N4DqGC1nbUk9PVA' is the teamdrive's folder id here.
I have been searching for means to upload files to Teamdrives with PyDrive but in vain. I see in the pydrive's github pages that they added the teamdrives support approx 8 month ago. But I cannot find any documentation on how to use that. Can anyone suggest where I am being wrong please?
For uploading, try making a file called "settings.yaml" and saving it in your working directory, as per the instructions here:
https://pythonhosted.org/PyDrive/oauth.html
You will need the client id and client secret found in the client_secrets.json file which should also be in your directory after you authorised access to the Google API.
Test it out with the following code to make a text file in a folder in the team drive:
parent_folder_id = 'YYYY'
f = drive.CreateFile({
'title': 'test.txt',
'parents': [{
'kind': 'drive#fileLink',
'teamDriveId': team_drive_id,
'id': parent_folder_id
}]
})
f.SetContentString('Hello World')
f.Upload(param={'supportsTeamDrives': True})
# where XXXX and YYYY are the team drive and target folder ids found from the end of the URLS when you open them in your browser.