Blog of Wei-Hsiung Huang: Google Drive API - Showing the id and mimeType of all the files and folders on Google Drive using Python

2016/10/25

Google Drive API - Showing the id and mimeType of all the files and folders on Google Drive using Python

Here are the code for showing the id and mimeType of all the files and folders on Google Drive.

Python script using Drive API v2

from __future__ import print_function
import os

from apiclient.discovery import build
from httplib2 import Http
from oauth2client import file, client, tools

try:
    import argparse
    flags = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[tools.argparser]).parse_args()
except ImportError:
    flags = None

SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'
store = file.Storage('storage.json')
creds = store.get()
if not creds or creds.invalid:
    flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets('client_secret.json', SCOPES)
    creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store, flags) \
            if flags else tools.run(flow, store)
SERVICE = build('drive', 'v2', http=creds.authorize(Http()))

files = SERVICE.files().list().execute().get('items', [])
for f in files:
 print (f['id'], f['mimeType'])

Python script using Drive API v3

from __future__ import print_function
import os

from apiclient.discovery import build
from httplib2 import Http
from oauth2client import file, client, tools

try:
    import argparse
    flags = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[tools.argparser]).parse_args()
except ImportError:
    flags = None

SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'
store = file.Storage('storage.json')
creds = store.get()
if not creds or creds.invalid:
    flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets('client_secret.json', SCOPES)
    creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store, flags) \
            if flags else tools.run(flow, store)
SERVICE = build('drive', 'v3', http=creds.authorize(Http()))

files = SERVICE.files().list(fields='files(id, mimeType)').execute()
for f in files.get('files', []):
 print (f.get('id'), f.get('mimeType'))

Note,

The Python script for Drive API v3 was made with reference to the sample at the end of https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/search-parameters (see below).