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Jeremy Walker
Jeremy Walker

Reputation: 85

Drive.API.v3 Different Accounts username / password authentication

So I have a few accounts that have documents on them, and having to switch between them all the time is quite frustrating, so I wanted to have them shared so that I can just have a link to view the file (no editing or anything).

Problem is, now with v3, I seemingly have to add the Drive API to every account that I want to view, which doesn't work for me. It's too much of a hassle to go through ALL of the accounts, when I have the username/password for them all already.

Is there a way to have a list of all my accounts username/passwords and somehow query to get a token to view only of the files? Or is this completely not possible anymore with v3.

I can get it working fine but instead of username/password, I have to enable drive API on the account, copy/paste the credential/secret instead of the username/password, and it works perfectly. I can search through all the files I have 'found' by accessing and reading the files and AlternateLink's accordingly... I just would like a non-intrusive way for my application to do this.

This is written in C#.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1209

Answers (1)

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 5601

Unfortunately you can no longer use username/password via an API since the ClientLogin API was shutdown in 2015.

Using OAuth, each user can be prompted to grant permission to your application. They need do this only once.

Alternatively and if the user accounts are GSuite based Google accounts, then your C# program could use a single service account and impersonate any or all accounts on your domain (once given permission to do that by your domain administrator). This obviates the need for each user to grant permission to your application. You can read about how to do this in the Delegating domain-wide authority to the service account doco.

Another alternative may be to create a google group and make all 3 accounts members of that group. Then share a folder (view, comment or edit access) with that group and put all files and sub folders there into that folder.

Upvotes: 1

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