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Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 65

Google drive API - Getting the parent folder with file_id?

Google Drive topic Is there a way to get the "folder name" with the file_id or the folder_id?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10116

Answers (2)

Jeff Rush
Jeff Rush

Reputation: 912

This can not be done in a single call its needs to be two. First you find the parent id of the file id you have then you need to request the name of the folder using the parent id that was returned to you from the first call.

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/[FileId]?fields=parents

Will give you the parent id of the folder that the file is currently in

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/[ParentId]?fields=name

Will give you the name of the parent folder

Here is an easy example made with "node.js"

We are searching for a filename "123", once found search for a parent id

Callbacks way:

function getParentID(auth) {

    const drive = google.drive({
        version: 'v3',
        auth
    });

    drive.files.list({
        q: "name = '123'"
    }, (err, res) => {

        if (err) return console.log('#1001 - The API returned an error: ' + err);

        const fileId = res.data.files[0].id;
        console.log("File ID : ", fileId);

        drive.files.get({
            fileId: fileId,
            fields: "parents"
        }, (err, res) => {

            if (err) return console.log('#1002 - The API returned an error:' + err);

            console.log("Parent folder ID :", res.data.parents[0])

        })

    });

}

Promises way:

function getParentID2(auth) {

    const drive = google.drive({
        version: 'v3',
        auth
    });

    drive.files.list({
        q: "name = '123'"
    }).then((res) => {

        const fileId = res.data.files[0].id;
        console.log("File ID : ", fileId);

        drive.files.get({
            fileId: fileId,
            fields: "parents"
        }).then((res) => {
            console.log("Parent folder ID :", res.data.parents[0])
        })

    }).catch((err) => {
        console.log(err.response.data)  
    })

}

Output:

File ID : 2xU_zgmOcjOIterprt91wibEEKU8fuNI-yZuBcgvEFjY Parent folder ID : 2KQve4H24jlgJKcywGRBJaOnTK2tDLZgR

References:

Upvotes: 6

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 116868

This can not be done in a single call its needs to be two. First you find the parent id of the file id you have then you need to request the name of the folder using the parent id that was returned to you from the first call.

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/[FileId]?fields=parents

Will give you the parent id of the folder that the file is currently in

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/[ParentId]?fields=name

Will give you the name of the parent folder

Upvotes: 2

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