Getting a list of files by folder on Drive SDK

Question

I am trying to build a web UI for users to navigate his/her Google Drive and select one or more documents to be referenced later on in a website from a DB. I am currently bu

Answer 1

NB This answer uses the v2 API. New applications should write to the v3 API.

It is now possible to use the drive.files.list endpoint to list files belonging to a specific folder.

To do so, you can use the ?q= query parameter as follows:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files?q="'' in parents"

In PHP, that would be

$service->files->list(array('q' => "'' in parents"));