I found the right thread at google.com to answer this. Here it is: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/drive/mTyJXruRhBg In short, the redirect and prefix is here to stay. It’s for some security thing. All files within the same googledrive folder will be prefixed with the same guid-looking string. That is, provided we use this googledrive url form: googledrive.com/host/{folderID}/FriendlyFilename. Then, … Read more
Update: I have posted another answer that works with the Spreadsheets v4 API. Old Answer: The answer from Alain is correct, but you also need to set the gid=parameter to specify which worksheet to export. For example, if your ‘application/pdf’ export link is like this: docs.google.com/feeds/download/spreadsheets/Export?key=<FILE_ID>&exportFormat=pdf You can just change it to this to download … Read more
If you want to have a full control over synchronization, do not use Google Drive Android NEW API (at least for now). It is not good enough yet (October 2014) or respectively it works in different way than “real time” OLD API. Main problems are, that you can’t delete file, changes are not real-time, metadata … Read more
You can use the alternateLink property in the File resource to get a link that can be shared for opening the file in the relevant Google editor or viewer: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files Update [With API V3](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/files it is suggested to use the webViewLink property.
Use the ‘Get Link’ option in Google Drive to get the URL. Use <img> tag in HTML and paste the link in there. Change Open? in the URL to uc?.
Here’s an example of using a FUSE Drive interface to access your Drive files like local files: https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1srw_HFWQ2SMgmWIawucXfusGzrj1_U0q In short: # Load the Drive helper and mount from google.colab import drive drive.mount(‘/content/drive’) After executing the code above, your Drive files will be present in /content/drive/My Drive. I’m guessing you also found the bundled example I/O … Read more
First, read the official docs: v2 to v3 reference | Drive API v3 versus v2 | Migrate to v3 Download Download has changed. The field downloadUrl does not exist anymore. Now, it can be achieved with this: service.files().get(fileId).executeMediaAndDownloadTo(outputStream); I tried the new field webContentLink but it returns HTML content, instead of the file’s content. In … Read more
To view your allowed quota please create a project in the Google APIs Console. In the “Service” tab, the default quota allowed for each service is indicated. Currently for the Drive API it reads “Courtesy limit: 1,000,000,000 queries/day”. It’s a per app quota. After you’ve enabled the Drive API you can also set a per … Read more
A workaround is to get the fileId with Google Drive SDK API and then using this Url: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id={fileId} That will be a permanent link to your file in Google Drive (image or anything else). Note: this link seems to be subject to quotas. So not ideal for public/massive sharing.