gdrivewrapper 0.0.4

A wrapper around Google Drive SDK

gdrivewrapper

A wrapper around Google Drive SDK. Covers basic operations like uploading a file or creating a folder.

Usage

Initiate the wrapper class

from gdrivewrapper import GDriveWrapper

api_scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file"
creds_path = "./drive_v3_creds.json"

gdw = GDriveWrapper(api_scope, creds_path)

Upload a local file

from googleapiclient.http import MediaFileUpload

local_path = "/tmp/resources/hello.txt"
media = MediaFileUpload(local_path)
gdw.upload(media)

Upload a string

from googleapiclient.http import MediaInMemoryUpload

my_bytearray = "my string :)".encode('utf-8')
media = MediaInMemoryUpload(my_bytearray)
gdw.upload(media)

Upload with a filename

media = ...
gdw.upload(media, name="mytextfile.txt")

Upload with a thumbnail

import base64

with open("image_path.png") as fp:
    image_bytes = fp.read() 

media = ...
image_bytes_b64 = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(image_bytes).decode('utf-8')
metadata = {
    'contentHints': {
        'thumbnail': {
            'image': image_bytes_b64,
            "mimeType": "image/png"
        }
    }
}
gdw.upload(media, **metadata)

Upload to a folder

response = gdw.create_folder("myfolder1")

media = ...
gdw.upload(media, folder_id=response["id"])

Add a comment to an existing file

media = ...
response = gdw.upload(media)
gdw.create_comment(key=response["id"], comment="this file is great!")