Looking for example using MediaFileUpload

Question

Does anyone know where I can find complete sample code for uploading a local file and getting contents with MediaFileUpload?

I really need to see both the HTML form

Answer 1

I found this question while trying to figure out where the heck "MediaFileUpload" came from in the Google API examples, and I eventually figured it out. Here is a more complete code example that I used to test things with Python 2.7.

You need a JSON credentials file for this code to work. This is the credentials file you get from your Google app / project / thing.

You also need a file to upload, I'm using "test.html" here in the example.

from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
from apiclient.discovery import build
from apiclient.http import MediaFileUpload

#Set up a credentials object I think
creds = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('credentials_from_google_app.json', ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'])

#Now build our api object, thing
drive_api = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)

file_name = "test"
print "Uploading file " + file_name + "..."

#We have to make a request hash to tell the google API what we're giving it
body = {'name': file_name, 'mimeType': 'application/vnd.google-apps.document'}

#Now create the media file upload object and tell it what file to upload,
#in this case 'test.html'
media = MediaFileUpload('test.html', mimetype = 'text/html')

#Now we're doing the actual post, creating a new file of the uploaded type
fiahl = drive_api.files().create(body=body, media_body=media).execute()

#Because verbosity is nice
print "Created file '%s' id '%s'." % (fiahl.get('name'), fiahl.get('id'))

A list of valid Mime Types to use in the "body" hash is available at https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/mime-types

A list of valid mimetype strings for the MediaFileUpload (they'll attempt to convert your file to whatever you put here):

https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/integrate-open#open_files_using_the_open_with_contextual_menu