import pickle import os from googleapiclient.discovery import build from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow from google.auth.transport.requests import Request from googleapiclient.http import MediaFileUpload # If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle. SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file'] def get_gdrive_service(): creds = None # The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is # created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first # time. if os.path.exists('token.pickle'): with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token: creds = pickle.load(token) # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in. if not creds or not creds.valid: if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token: creds.refresh(Request()) else: flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file( 'credentials.json', SCOPES) creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0) # Save the credentials for the next run with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token: pickle.dump(creds, token) return build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds) def upload_files(): """ Creates a folder and upload a file to it """ # authenticate account service = get_gdrive_service() # folder details we want to make folder_metadata = { "name": "TestFolder", "mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.folder" } # create the folder file = service.files().create(body=folder_metadata, fields="id").execute() # get the folder id folder_id = file.get("id") print("Folder ID:", folder_id) # upload a file text file # first, define file metadata, such as the name and the parent folder ID file_metadata = { "name": "test.txt", "parents": [folder_id] } # upload media = MediaFileUpload("test.txt", resumable=True) file = service.files().create(body=file_metadata, media_body=media, fields='id').execute() print("File created, id:", file.get("id")) if __name__ == '__main__': upload_files()