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Christoph
Christoph

Reputation: 75

Add a shared folder to google drive using a share link

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So here is what i want to accomplish:

1) User installs my application on his computer.
2) User grants my app access to his drive.
3) My app shares a folder from my drive with the user.

The problem in accomplishing part 3) is that my app actually needs write access to my drive, so it can share my folder with the current user. But for security reasons there is no way i can grant my app write acces to my drive.

Now im asking for a possibility to perform part 3) without granting my app write access for my drive.

I would like my installed application to add a shared folder to a users google drive account by only using a share link i generated manually for a folder i've created in my drive. Is it possible to accomplish this using google drive API?

Edit: What i actually want to do is to create a folder in the users drive and link this folder to a folder in my drive, so the user can access the files stored in my drive.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3396

Answers (1)

Burcu Dogan
Burcu Dogan

Reputation: 9213

A shortcut to another's shared directory? Google Drive doesn't support it but, you can create an application to handle it.

  1. Create a shortcut to your application.
  2. Add the the link you want your user to be redirected as a custom property to the shortcut file.
  3. When user opens the file from Drive and being redirected to your app, read the custom property you stored.
  4. Redirect user to the the location on the retrieved custom property.

Upvotes: 1

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