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Ajeeb.K.P
Ajeeb.K.P

Reputation: 1053

How to search inside files in Google Drive?

I am a google drive user(not a API user or developer). I want to know is there any way to search inside the file contents. I know the filenames can be searched with search bar. But i couldn't find a way to search inside files.

For example,

I have a file Names.txt which contains 

Oracle
Microsoft
IBM

How can i get,say Microsoft, just by searching?

I got this information

useContentAsIndexableText   boolean     Whether to use the content as indexable text. (Default: false)

from

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/insert

and nothing more helpful :p

Any idea, how to get the file content by searching?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 31564

Answers (3)

NikitQa
NikitQa

Reputation: 143

You can use "" in the search box, neverthless if you have a lot of pdfs, convert it to doc format, this way you'll be able to look up information in books. Though I would recommend to hold your pdf files in your computer and analyze it with a pdf reader(For example PDF-XChange Viewer)

Upvotes: 0

Ilia P
Ilia P

Reputation: 646

I think that you need some kind of UI to do a full-text content search in your GDrive. There is several tools to do it.

First, you can do it on your desktop with DTSearch or MetaSearch Secondly, you can use cloud based solution Findo

None of solutions fit me properly, so I decided to write my own cloud based document search engine - Ambar. As for now it's supports only Dropbox. But you can give it a try as well with manual uploads.

Upvotes: 3

Ajeeb.K.P
Ajeeb.K.P

Reputation: 1053

Actually, i found one way to sort the files which contains the text from the link below.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375114?hl=en&ref_topic=2463645

That is by including the search term in in double quotes.

So if i search with "Microsoft". Then only files that contains Microsoft will be visible.

Upvotes: 10

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