EGDrive 0.1.1

A Simplified Google Drive API.

📦️ EGDrive

A simplified Google Drive API wrapper for Python.

EGDrive is a built on top of PyDrive2, it simplifies managment of Google Drive using Python, it has a high level interface emulating Linux file management commands in an intuitive way.

Installation

Install EGDrive with pip

    pip install EGDrive

📌 Features

• Intuitive Unix-like commands (ls, mkdir, rm ...) to manage Google Drive
• Uses Unix path's format, no more Google Drive ID's headaches.
• Built on top of PyDrive2, access GoogleDrive and GoogleAuth instances for more options.
• Lightweight.

🚀 Usage/Examples

Authentication with Google Drive

Create a new project in Google's APIs Console, for that follow this guide in here. To make the authentication automatic follow this guide.

Usage Examples

Initiate an EGDrive instance.

from EGDrive import EGDrive

gdrive = EGDrive()

List files

files = [file['title'] for file in gdrive.ls('root')]
for file in files:
    print(file)

Create a directory

gdrive.mkdir("/Books")

Create even more directories

gdrive.mkdir("/Books/Science")
gdrive.mkdir("/Books/Litterature")
gdrive.mkdir("/Books/Science/Programming/JAVA")
gdrive.mkdir("/Books/Science/Programming/Python/3/")

Remove files and directories

# move to Trash
gdrive.rm("/Books/Science/Programming/JAVA")
# delete permanently
gdrive.rm("/Books/Litterature", permanently=True)

Download a file

gdrive.download("/Books/Science/physics.pdf", "/home/user/Downloads/physics.pdf")

Upload a file

gdrive.upload("/home/user/Videos/mrbean.mp4", "/Videos/mrbean.mp4")

Check if a file exists

gdrive.exists("/path/to/file")

Create an empty file

gdrive.touch("/Documents/empty.txt")

Get access to PyDrive2 GoogleDrive and GoogleAuth instances

gdrive.drive # GoogleDrive instance
gdrive.gauth # GoogleAuth instance

🔧 Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!