How to upload a file on Google Drive using python with POST request?

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I'm trying to upload file on Google Drive using http POST request without Google libs.

So, that's what i've found here:

import json
import requests

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + ACCESS_TOKEN}
para = {
    "title": "image_url.jpg",
    "parents": [{"id": "root"}, {"id": "### folder ID ###"}]
}
files = {
    "data": ("metadata", json.dumps(para), "application/json; charset=UTF-8"),
    "file": requests.get("image_url").content
}
response = requests.post("https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v2/files?  uploadType=multipart", headers=headers, files=files)

return response

I was trying to adapt it a bit for local files and do something like this:

def upload_file(access_token, filename, filepath, parentID = "root"):
    query_link = 'https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files'
    query_params = "?uploadType=multipart"
    link = '{0}{1}'.format(query_link, query_params)
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + access_token}
    meta_data = {
        "title": filename,
        "parents": [{"id": parentID}]
    }
    files = {
        "data": ("metadata", json.dumps(meta_data), "application/json; charset=UTF-8"),
        "file": open(filepath + "\\" + filename, 'rb')
    }
    response = requests.post(link, headers=headers, files=files)

But all i got is creating Untitled files in my directory, so can you help me to fix this?

Matthew · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-03 14:41:02Z

1

Found solution. In third version of Google Drive API they use field name instead of title, now everything is working!

answered May 3, 2019 at 14:41

Matthew

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