Write to Google Drive using Service Account Credential on behalf of different owner in Python

Question

When I create a file

drive_api = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=credentials)
ss_drive = drive_api.files().create(body=file_metadata).execute()

I'd like to write it on behalf of different owner. Or change the owner afterwards.

​'owners': [{'displayName': '1@',
  'emailAddress': '1@',
  'kind': 'drive#user',
  'me': True,
  'permissionId': '1'}],

Is it possible?

Answer 1

For the sake of documentation.

1. You can create files as other users with Domain Wide Delegation.

   • This requires a G Suite Domain
   • This is also overkill, since Domain Wide Delegation is a lot of permissions

2. You can create the files normally then update the permissions to have another user as the OWNER.

   • This can be done with the Drive API Permissions.Update
   • You can read about doing this with Python on this other question