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pythongoogle-drive-api
Granth
Granth

Reputation: 384

Is there a way to get title of a google drive file in python using its google drive file id?

I have google drive IDs of many files which I want to download. However the apis to download google drive files want the filename as well to save the file with that name.

Is there a way in python to get the title/name of the file from the google drive file ID in python?

If so please help to share a sample code.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1358

Answers (1)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 116878

The file.get method to download a file does not require a file name it simply requires that you send it the file id.

# Call the Drive v3 API
# get the file media data
request = service.files().get_media(fileId=FILEID)

fh = io.BytesIO()
downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)
done = False
while done is False:
    status, done = downloader.next_chunk()
    print("Download %d%%" % int(status.progress() * 100))

What does require a name is when you want to save it to your system.

# The file has been downloaded into RAM, now save it in a file
fh.seek(0)
with open(file_name, 'wb') as f:
    shutil.copyfileobj(fh, f, length=131072)

You can just do a file.get to get the metadata of the file first then you can use that when you want to save your file.

# Call the Drive v3 API
# Get file name, so we can save it as the same with the same name.
file = service.files().get(fileId=FILEID).execute()
file_name = file.get("name")
print(f'File name is: {file_name}')

Upvotes: 3

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