Google drives api download file

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Guides Reference Samples Support Switch to v2. Resource summary About. Standard features. Each capability corresponds to a fine-grained action that a user may take.

Other factors may limit the type of changes a user can make to a file. For an item in a shared drive, whether the current user can copy non-folder descendants of this item, or this item itself if it is not a folder.

For a shared drive item, whether revisions of non-folder descendants of this item, or this item itself if it is not a folder, can be read.

This does not indicate whether the requesting app has access to the thumbnail. To check access, look for the presence of the thumbnailLink field. Only populated for items in shared drives.

This is always false when the item is not a folder. For a folder in a shared drive, use canDeleteChildren or canTrashChildren instead. This field is only populated for items in shared drives. This is false when the item is not a folder. Note that a request to move the child may still fail depending on the current user's access to the child and to the destination folder.

Note that a request to change the parent of the item may still fail depending on the new parent that is being added. Note that a request to change the parent of the item may still fail depending on the new parent that is being added and the parent that is being removed. Not populated for shared drive files. The value of this field is a snapshot of the target's MIME type, captured when the shortcut is created.

Only populated if such a restriction exists. If a file is read-only, a new revision of the file may not be added, comments may not be added or modified, and the title of the file may not be modified.

Only populated if readOnly is true. Currently the only possible value is globalContentRestriction. Methods copy Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics. Folders cannot be copied. If the file belongs to a shared drive the user must be an organizer on the parent. If the target is a folder, all descendants owned by the user are also deleted.

Note that the exported content is limited to 10MB. When calling this method, only populate fields in the request that you want to modify. When updating fields, some fields might change automatically, such as modifiedDate. This method supports patch semantics. Explore our sample apps or fork them to build your own. Identifies what kind of resource this is. The name of the file. The MIME type of the file. Whether the file has been trashed, either explicitly or from a trashed parent folder.

Whether the file has been explicitly trashed, as opposed to recursively trashed from a parent folder. When the entire file upload is complete, you receive a OK or Created response, along with any metadata associated with the resource. If an upload request is terminated before a response, or if you receive a Service Unavailable response, then you need to resume the interrupted upload. Add a Content-Range header to indicate that the current position in the file is unknown. If you received a Resume Incomplete response, process the response's Range header, to determine which bytes the server has received.

If the response doesn't have a Range header, no bytes have been received. Now that you know where to resume the upload, continue to upload the file beginning with the next byte. Include a Content-Range header to indicate which portion of the file you send.

When you create a file in Google Drive, you might want to convert the file into a Google Workspace file type, such as a Google Doc or Sheet. For example, maybe you want to convert a document from your favorite word processor into a Google Doc to take advantage of Google Doc's features.

To convert a file to a specific Google Workspace file type, specify the Google Workspace mimeType when creating the file. To see if a conversion is available, check the About resource's importFormats array prior to creating the file. Supported conversions are available dynamically in this array. Some common import formats are:. When you upload and convert media during an update request to a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide, the full contents of the document are replaced.

The extracted text appears in the Google Docs document alongside the embedded image. Upload and file creation requests can use these pregenerated IDs. Set the id field in the file metadata. To create pregenerated IDs, call file. You can safely retry uploads with pregenerated IDs in the case of an indeterminate server error or timeout.

If the file was successfully created, subsequent retries return a HTTP error, they do not create duplicate files. Users can use the Drive UI to search for document content. You can also use the file.

For further information on searching for files, refer to Search for files and folders. To allow content searches, Drive automatically indexes document contents when it recognizes the file type.

Recognized file types include text documents, PDFs, images with text, and other common types. If your app saves files that Drive doesn't recognize, you should include text in the contentHints.

Publish your Drive app. Stay updated. Notice: important security update for Drive document URLs and resource keys. For more information, refer to Access link-shared files using resource keys. Specify revisions to save from auto delete Google Drive automatically deletes older revisions that are no longer of interest to the user. Download a revision You can use the value of the headRevisionId field from the Files resource to download the latest revision. To download the revision content, you need to call revisions.

Revisions for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides can't be downloaded.