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pythongoogle-drive-apiservice-accounts
Pieter-Jan Roex
Pieter-Jan Roex

Reputation: 11

Make shortcut in Google drive with service account gives 'Forbidden' after a while

I use Python code to make a shortcut in a drive folder to another folder (let's call it 'folder X'). This works perfect until suddenly I get the message: 'googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 403 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?alt=json returned "Forbidden". Details: "[{'message': 'Forbidden', 'domain': 'global', 'reason': 'forbidden'}]">'. I have no idea why I get this forbidden message on a previously working JSON auth key file for my service account.

Does anyone have an idea? And how can I get access again to folder X with my JSON auth key file from my service account?

The workaround is that I copy 'folder X' and just make a new 'folder X' in my Google drive, and then it works again. But this is not a sustainable solution.

def Functie_Maak_Snelkoppeling(snelkoppeling_map, listing_map, shortcut_name):
    
    creds = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file('C:/.../creds.json')

    service = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)

    file_metadata = {
        'name': shortcut_name,
        'mimeType': 'application/vnd.google-apps.shortcut',
        'parents': [listing_map],
        'shortcutDetails': {
            'targetId': snelkoppeling_map     
        }
        
    }
    service.files().create(body=file_metadata).execute()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 40

Answers (1)

Deyui
Deyui

Reputation: 1

Possible Issue:
Since you said it works for a while then suddenly stops, I think the issue is that you hit the limit of creating 500 shortcuts for one file/folder per account.

Possible Solutions:
I can't think of an elegant solution to it, so you either have to:

  • make a new copy of that folder
  • use another service account (although this method isn't recommended since there's a hard limit of 5000 shortcuts per item for all accounts).

Upvotes: 0

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