Your access token will be stored in credentials/credentials.json upon the browser authentication, which I will go through after this. The connect_to_google_drive.py is the Python file that contains instructions to connect to Google Drive API. Your project structure should look like this, to begin with.
GOOGLE DRIVE API PYTHON HOW TO
If you don’t know how to do this, follow this tutorial here.
GOOGLE DRIVE API PYTHON INSTALL
# install all the dependent packages pip install google-api-python-client oauth2clientĬreate a folder in the project directory called credentials to store your client_secret.json which you can download from your Google Console. $ virtualenv venv_google_api $ source venv_google_api/bin/activate In your terminal run the following to create and use a virtual environment. We are going to start with installing google-API-python-client and oauth2client libraries. Since the API resources that we want to access contain sensitive scope (accessing files in Google Drive), we need to do a browser authentication for the first time.īefore we begin, let’s set up a virtual environment to contain and install all the dependencies for this project.
To be able to access the API resources, we need to get the access token. When I first started working with the API, I was having difficulties, and only after using it a few times that I developed a better understanding.
A lot of companies are using Google Drive to manage and store some of their files so that their employees can access them easily from anywhere as long as there’s internet access.
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