colossus9/google-drive-ops

This repository is intended to build common file operations I need to interact with Google Drive that is not available via their UI.

google-drive-ops

This repository is intended to build common file operations I need to interact with Google Drive that is not available via their UI.

State of the project

At this point, I've created this repository to begin recording my thoughts on the need.

Motivation

I have found the Google Drive UI to be lacking common file operations I need in how I am using the service, including:

• Easy file list export
• Summarization of file sizes
• Text-based file listing
• Counting files in directories (without needing to "select all") and subdirectories

List of operations

This is a (not yet comprehensive) list of specific operations I would like to have built out.

Given a directory location:

• List all files in the directory
• Count number of folders and files in the directory
• Sum the total size of all items in the directory

Helpful references

These are references I find helpful while researching how to build these file operations:

Description	Link
🐍 The official Python client library for Google's discovery based APIs	https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client
Google Drive API Python wrapper library	https://github.com/gsuitedevs/PyDrive
Google Drive API v3 Reference	https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference
Drive API Instance Methods	http://googleapis.github.io/google-api-python-client/docs/dyn/drive_v3.html