Python Google Drive API - list the entire drive file tree

Question

I\'m building a python application that uses the Google drive APIs, so fare the development is good but I have a problem to retrieve the entire Google drive file tree, I nee

Answer 1

I agree with @pinoyyid - Google drive is not a typical tree structure.

BUT, for printing the folder structure I would still consider using a tree visualization library (for example like treelib).

Below is a full solution for printing your google drive file system recursively.

from treelib import Node, Tree

from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive

gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)

### Helper functions ### 
def get_children(root_folder_id):
    str = "\'" + root_folder_id + "\'" + " in parents and trashed=false"
    file_list = drive.ListFile({'q': str}).GetList()
    return file_list

def get_folder_id(root_folder_id, root_folder_title):
    file_list = get_children(root_folder_id)
    for file in file_list:
        if(file['title'] == root_folder_title):
            return file['id']

def add_children_to_tree(tree, file_list, parent_id):
    for file in file_list:
        tree.create_node(file['title'], file['id'], parent=parent_id)
        print('parent: %s, title: %s, id: %s' % (parent_id, file['title'], file['id']))

### Recursion over all children ### 
def populate_tree_recursively(tree,parent_id):
    children = get_children(parent_id)
    add_children_to_tree(tree, children, parent_id)
    if(len(children) > 0):
        for child in children:
            populate_tree_recursively(tree, child['id'])


### Create tree and start populating from root ###
def main():
    root_folder_title = "your-root-folder"
    root_folder_id = get_folder_id("root", root_folder_title)

    tree = Tree()
    tree.create_node(root_folder_title, root_folder_id)
    populate_tree_recursively(tree, root_folder_id)
    tree.show()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()