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Devin Clary
Devin Clary

Reputation: 3

Google Drive Setting mime types properly in Python

I'm building a command-line Python script to upload files to Google Drive. My goal is to upload any file, regardless of the file type.

According to the documentation, when I'm uploading a file (regardless of whether I'm using a media upload or simple upload) if I leave mime_type set to None, Google Drive should automatically set the mime type accordingly. It works great for most file types. Here's a simplified example of how I upload a file:

def upload(service, title, parent_id, mime_type, filename):
    media_body = MediaFileUpload(filename, mimetype=mime_type, resumable=True)
    body={
        'title': title,
        'mimeType': None
    }
    body['parents'] = [{'id': parentID}]

    try:
        service.files().insert(body=body,media_body=media_body).execute()
    except apiclient.errors.HttpError, e:
        #catch the error

The problem is when the file is an executable, database, or other application support file, Google drive doesn't seem to be able to handle setting the mime_type properly and throws an error: "HttpError 400 "Media type 'None' is not supported. Valid media types: [ * / *]"

I catch the 400 error, and I then try uploading the file using the mime_type "binary/octet-stream" which seems to at least let the request go through. But when the file is uploaded, it is 0 bytes in size i.e. the file is created but none of the content is uploaded.

I've also tried to set the mime_type according to Python's built-in "mimetypes.guess_type(url)" function, but even with this specificity it doesn't seem to work properly.

Can anyone help point me to how to set mime_type so that regardless of the file type, it gets uploaded correctly? Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1880

Answers (1)

Ryan McGrath
Ryan McGrath

Reputation: 2042

binary/octet-stream isn't actually a valid mimetype, I believe. Are you sure you're not looking for application/octet-stream?

This Python script for Google Drive uploading seems to use it as well.

Upvotes: 2

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