metalsmith-google-drive

metalsmith to scrape files from google drive

Highlights:

• requests token authorisation via CLI
• caches token and files, only requests changed files
• no tests yet

See the annotated source or github repo

install

npm i --save github:leviwheatcroft/metalsmith-google-drive

usage

api credentials

Follow this guide, go through A to G under Step 1, the downloaded file will contain the credentials you need to pass into this plugin. In these examples I'm using config to store them.

Once you've authed, the token will be printed to console, you can store this token in a config file if you wish, but be aware that it's sensitive so put it somewhere which isn't tracked.

example

Metalsmith('src')
.use(googleDrive({
  auth: config.get('driveAuth'),
  src: '0B1QpLgu4qk48R1hDBi1wWFkyV2s',
  dest: 'articles'
}))
.build( ... )

options

• src {String} being the drive id of the parent folder you want to scrape
• dest {String} the path under which you want to place the scraped files in metalsmith
• auth {Object} containing client_id, client_secret and redirect_uris
• cache {Boolean} (default: true) store files in cache

notes

• to get a google drive folder id just view it in your browser and copy the id from the url
• files in subfolders on google drive will be included, but their containing folders will not be included in the path in metalsmith. In otherwords, this plugin does a recursive search but flattens the result.
• files scraped from drive will not be stored in your file system, they're added directly to metalsmith files structure during build.

Author

Levi Wheatcroft [email protected]

Contributing

Contributions welcome; Please submit all pull requests against the master branch.

License

• MIT : http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT