pygdrive

pygdrive

pygdrive is a wrapper library of google-api-python-client that simplifies uploading and downloading files.

Project Info

• GitHub: https://github.com/vectorspace-ai/pygdrive

Features of pygdrive

• Simplifies OAuth2.0 with service_account into just a few lines with flexible settings.
• Wraps Google Drive API into a class which can search, upload and download files and folders.

How to install

You can install PyDrive with regular pip command.

pip install pygdrive

You can install pygdrive from the current development version from GitHub, use:

pip install git+https://github.com/vectorspace-ai/pygdrive.git

Creating credentials.json file

Download client_secrets.json from Google API Console. Share your Drive account's folder to your service account. Your service account's addresss looks like [e-mail]. Then your service account can see the shared folder from your Drive account.

Сreating Gdrive object

  from pygdrive import Gdrive
  SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']
  CREDENTIALS_FILEPATH = 'credentials.json'
  DOWNLOAD_DIR = 'download_dir/'
  UPLOAD_DIR = 'upload_dir/'
  gdrive_object = Gdrive(CREDENTIALS_FILEPATH, SCOPES, DOWNLOAD_DIR, UPLOAD_DIR)

File management made easy

Upload file to certain folder:

Make sure that folder exists and filename appears in UPLOAD_DIR

folder_id, _ = gdrive_object.find_folder('coingecko')
gdrive_object.upload_file(folder_id, 'filename.extension')

You could specify your local upload path if it differs from UPLOAD_DIR:

folder_id, _ = gdrive_object.find_folder('coingecko')
gdrive_object.upload_file(folder_id, 'filename.extension', 'upload_storage/')

Create folder:

parent_id = 'PARENT ID'
folder_id = gdrive_object.create_folder(parent_id, 'folder_name')

Make sure that DOWNLOAD_DIR exists and filename.extension in google drive folder.

file_id, file_name = gdrive_object.find_file('filename.extension')
gdrive_object.download_file(file_id, file_name)

You could specify your local download path if it differs from DOWNLOAD_DIR:

file_id, file_name = gdrive_object.find_file('filename.extension')
gdrive_object.download_file(file_id, file_name, 'some_updated_local_path/')

After uploading/downloading files you should expect uploaded/downloaded file.