Welcome to PyDrive2’s documentation!

PyDrive2 is a wrapper library of google-api-python-client that simplifies many common Google Drive API tasks.

Project Info

• Package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyDrive2

• Documentation: https://docs.iterative.ai/PyDrive2

• Source: https://github.com/iterative/PyDrive2

• Changelog: https://github.com/iterative/PyDrive2/releases

How to install

You can install PyDrive2 with regular pip command.

$ pip install PyDrive2

To install the current development version from GitHub, use:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/iterative/PyDrive2.git#egg=PyDrive2

Table of Contents

• Quickstart
  • Authentication
  • Creating and Updating Files
  • Listing Files
  • Creating a Folder
  • Return File ID via File Title
  • Browse Folders
• OAuth made easy
  • Authentication in two lines
  • Automatic and custom authentication with settings.yaml
  • Building your own authentication flow
  • Authentication with a service account
• File management made easy
  • Upload a new file
  • Delete, Trash and un-Trash files
  • Update file metadata
  • Download file metadata from file ID
  • Handling special metadata
  • Get files by complex queries
  • Upload and update file content
  • Upload data as bytes in memory buffer
  • Upload file to a specific folder
  • Download file content
  • Abusive files
• File listing made easy
  • Get all files which matches the query
  • Paginate and iterate through files
• fsspec filesystem
  • Installation
  • Local webserver
  • Service account
  • Additional parameters
  • Using filesystem
• pydrive2 package
  • pydrive2.apiattr module
  • pydrive2.auth module
  • pydrive2.drive module
  • pydrive2.files module
  • pydrive2.settings module
  • pydrive2.fs module
• Index