Uploading Multiple Files to Google Drive with Google App Script

Question

I\'m trying to upload multiple files at once with my app. It recognizes when there are 2 or more files being selected. However, it will only upload the 1st file that is sele

Answer 1

as @barragan's answer here is the best answer i found after hours and hours of searching for a question many people were asking, i've done a bit of development to improve the design a bit for others as a thanks. still a few bugs and chrome seems to run out of memory and give up with any file over 100MB

here's a live version

server.gs

'function doGet() {
  return HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('form')
    .setSandboxMode(HtmlService.SandboxMode.IFRAME);
}

function uploadFileToDrive(base64Data, fileName) {
  try{
    var splitBase = base64Data.split(','),
        type = splitBase[0].split(';')[0].replace('data:','');

    var byteCharacters = Utilities.base64Decode(splitBase[1]);
    var ss = Utilities.newBlob(byteCharacters, type);
    ss.setName(fileName);

    var dropbox = "Something"; // Folder Name
    var folder, folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(dropbox);

    if (folders.hasNext()) {
      folder = folders.next();
    } else {
      folder = DriveApp.createFolder(dropbox);
    }
    var file = folder.createFile(ss);

    return file.getName();
  }catch(e){
    return 'Error: ' + e.toString();
  }
}
'

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i wasn't able to get the text fields to send an email with the details out, and ran out of time before working out how to hook them up to a Google Spreadsheet, so for the moment they don't record the information added

as an added bonus, it looked fabulous with is in the form.html

      

      
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i took it out again as some of the scripts being called in were causing issues. if anyone can fix them it they add a lot to the appearance and functionality of the form

*edit: i've been playing around with it and only around half of the files sent seem to arrive, so there are still some issues with both of the codes here atm