Quickstart: Run a Drive App in Python

Complete the steps described in the rest of this page, and in about five minutes

you'll have a simple Drive app that uploads a file to Google Drive.

To run a quickstart example you'll need:

* Access to the internet and a web browser, in order to authorize the sample app.

* A Google account with Drive enabled.

* An environment to run programs in your selected language.

Step 1: Get the sample

Clone the `git` repository at `https://github.com/googledrive/quickstart-python`.

git clone https://github.com/googledrive/quickstart-python

Step 2: Install the Google Client Library

To install the Google API Python Client on a system, you should use the `pip` command.

pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

Alternatively, if you are using `virtualenv`, create the environment and install the client library.

virtualenv ve

./ve/bin/pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

If you need to access the Google API Python Client from a Google App Engine

project, you can follow the instructions

[here](https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/platforms/google_app_engine).

Step 3: Run the sample

After you have set up your Google API project, installed the Google API client

library, and set up the sample source code, the sample is ready to run.

python main.py

Or if using `virtualenv`.

./ve/bin/python main.py

When you run the sample from command-line, it provides a link you'll need to

visit in order to authorize.

1. Browse to the provided URL in your web browser.

2. If you are not already logged into your Google account, you will be prompted

to log in. If you are logged into multiple Google accounts, you will be

asked to select one account to use for the authorization.

3. Copy the code you're given after browsing to the link, and paste it into the

prompt `Enter authorization code:`. Click **Enter**.

Note: The authorization flow in this example is greatly simplified for

demonstration purposes and should not be used in web applications. For more

information, see [Authorizing your App with Google Drive](http://developers.google.com/drive/about-auth).

When you finish these steps,

the sample prints information about the Google Drive file to the screen.

The file `document.txt` is accessible in Google Drive, and is titled `My

New Text Document`.

By editing the sample code to provide paths to new files and new titles,

you can run a few more simple upload tests. When you're ready, you

could try running some other Drive API methods such as

[files.list](http://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list).

{"installed":{"auth_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth","client_secret":"ckGVrYYQ_GE7O4rL80ozlEXR","token_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token","client_email":"","redirect_uris":["urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob","oob"],"client_x509_cert_url":"","client_id":"665081966568.apps.googleusercontent.com","auth_provider_x509_cert_url":"https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs"}}

This file will be uploaded to Google Drive as plain text.

Hello world :)

import pprint

import httplib2

import apiclient.discovery

import apiclient.http

import oauth2client.client

OAUTH2_SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'

CLIENT_SECRETS = 'client_secrets.json'

FILENAME = 'document.txt'

MIMETYPE = 'text/plain'

TITLE = 'My New Text Document'

DESCRIPTION = 'A shiny new text document about hello world.'

flow = oauth2client.client.flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRETS, OAUTH2_SCOPE)

flow.redirect_uri = oauth2client.client.OOB_CALLBACK_URN

authorize_url = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()

print 'Go to the following link in your browser: ' + authorize_url

code = raw_input('Enter verification code: ').strip()

credentials = flow.step2_exchange(code)

http = httplib2.Http()

credentials.authorize(http)

drive_service = apiclient.discovery.build('drive', 'v2', http=http)

media_body = apiclient.http.MediaFileUpload(

FILENAME,

mimetype=MIMETYPE,

resumable=True

)

body = {

'title': TITLE,

'description': DESCRIPTION,

}

new_file = drive_service.files().insert(body=body, media_body=media_body).execute()

pprint.pprint(new_file)