google-drive-io

Node.js library that makes file access in Google Drive easy.

Abstract

The official Google Drive API requires fetching of files by their id. This is particular problematic when manipulating files/folders with directory structures (as recursion is often required). This library provides convenience methods that can retrieve / insert files based on their paths.

Methods

This library exposes a number of utility methods that aid file IO in Google Drive:

• getFolder (folderPath, returnFields, auth)

  Attempts to fetch a google drive folder with path specified.
  Returns Google Drive file resource object if exists, otherwise err via callback(err, folder).
  @param  folderPath folder path to search for
  @param  returnFields fields in Google file resource to return (comma separated)
  @param  auth OAuth2 client for accessing user's Google Drive
  @returns the Google Drive folder resource object

• getRootFolder (returnFields, auth)

  Attempts to fetch the root directory in google drive.
  Returns Google Drive file resource object if exists, otherwise err via callback(err, folder).
  @param  returnFields fields in Google file resource to return (comma separated)
  @param  auth OAuth2 client for accessing user's Google Drive
  @returns the Google Drive file resource object

• getFile(filePath, returnFields, auth)

  Attempts to fetch a google drive file with path specified.
  Returns Google Drive file resource object if exists, otherwise err via callback(err, folder).
  @param  filePath file path to search for
  @param  returnFields fields in Google file resource to return (comma separated)
  @param  auth OAuth2 client for accessing user's Google Drive
  @returns the Google Drive folder resource object

• createFolder(folderPath, returnFields, auth)

  Creates a google drive folder with path specified.
  @param  folderPath folder path to search for / create if not exists
  @param  returnFields fields in Google file resource to return (comma separated)
  @param  auth OAuth2 client for accessing user's Google Drive
  @returns the Google Drive folder resource object

• createFolderIfNotExists(folderPath, returnFields, auth)

  See documentation for `createFolder`.

• uploadFile(filePath, uploadPath, returnFields, auth)

  Upload a file to google drive.
  @param  filePath path to local file object
  @param  uploadPath path to upload to in Google Drive
  @param  returnFields fields in Google file resource to return (comma separated)
  @param  auth OAuth2 client for accessing user's Google Drive
  @returns the Google Drive file resource object of the uploaded file

• uploadFileIfNotExists(filePath, uploadPath, returnFields, auth)

  See documentation for `uploadFile`.