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Python Quicksta
Complete the steps described in the rest of this page to create a simple Python command-line application that makes requests
to the Drive API.

Prerequisites

To run this quickstart, you'll need:

Python 2.6 or greater

The pip (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) package management tool

A Google account with Google Drive enabled

Step 1: Turn on the Drive API

Click this button to create a new Cloud Platform project and automatically enable the Drive API:

Enable the Drive API

In resulting dialog click DOWNLOAD CLIENT CONFIGURATION and save the le credentials.json to your working directory.

Step 2: Install the Google Client Library

Run the following command to install the library using pip:

p install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

See the library's installation page (/api-client-library/python/start/installation) for the alternative installation options.

Step 3: Set up the sample

Create a le named quickstart.py in your working directory and copy in the following code:

drive/quickstart/quickstart.py

View on GitHub (https://github.com/gsuitedevs/python-samples/blob/master/drive/quickstart/quickstart.py)

from __future__ import print_function

import pickle
import os.path
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request

# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.

SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly']

def main():
    """Shows basic usage of the Drive v3 API.
    Prints the names and ids of the first 10 files the user has access to.
    """
    creds = None
    # The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
    # created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
    # time.
    if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
        with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:

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            creds = pickle.load(token)
    # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
    if not creds or not creds.valid:
        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
            creds.refresh(Request())
        else:
            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
                'credentials.json', SCOPES)
            creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
        # Save the credentials for the next run
        with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
            pickle.dump(creds, token)

    service = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)

    # Call the Drive v3 API

    results = service.files().list(
        pageSize=10, fields="nextPageToken, files(id, name)").execute()
    items = results.get('files', [])

    if not items:
        print('No files found.')
    else:
        print('Files:')
        for item in items:
            print(u'{0} ({1})'.format(item['name'], item['id']))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Step 4: Run the sample

Run the sample using the following command:

thon quickstart.py

a. The sample will attempt to open a new window or tab in your default browser. If this fails, copy the URL from the console
and manually open it in your browser.

If you are not already logged into your Google account, you will be prompted to log in. If you are logged into multiple Google
accounts, you will be asked to select one account to use for the authorization.

b. Click the Accept button.

c. The sample will proceed automatically, and you may close the window/tab.

 It worked!  There was a problem

Great! Check out the further reading section below to learn more.

Bummer, . Check out our troubleshooting (#troubleshooting) section below for some common errors and solutions. If you have found a bug in the
code, report the issue on GitHub (https://github.com/gsuitedevs/python-samples/issues) or submit a pull request.

Notes

Authorization information is stored on the le system, so subsequent executions will not prompt for authorization.

The authorization ow in this example is designed for a command-line application. For information on how to perform
authorization in a web application, see Using OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications (/api-client-library/python/auth/web-app).

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Fu her reading

Google Developers Console help documentation (/console/help/new/)

Google APIs Client for Python documentation (/api-client-library/python/)

Drive API PyDoc documentation (/resources/api-libraries/documentation/drive/v3/python/latest/)

Drive REST API reference documentation (/drive/api/v3/reference/)

Troubleshooting

This section describes some common issues that you may encounter while attempting to run this quickstart and suggests
possible solutions.

AttributeError: 'Module_six_moves_urllib_parse' object has no attribute 'urlparse'

This error can occur in Mac OSX where the default installation of the six module (a dependency of this library) is loaded before
the one that pip installed. To x the issue, add pip's install location to the PYTHONPATH system environment variable:

a. Determine pip's install location with the following command:

$ pip show six | grep "Location:" | cut -d " " -f2

b. Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc le, replacing <pip_install_path> with the value determined above:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:<pip_install_path>

c. Reload your ~/.bashrc le in any open terminal windows using the following command:

$ source ~/.bashrc

TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found

This error is due to a bug in httplib2, and upgrading to the latest version should resolve it:

p install --upgrade httplib2

Cannot uninstall 'six'. It is a distutils installed project...

When running the pip install command you may receive the following error:

ot uninstall 'six'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we

ot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to
a partial uninstall.

This can happen on Mac OSX when pip attempts to upgrade the six package that came pre-installed. To work around this issue
you can add the ag --ignore-installed six to the pip install command listed in Step 2.

This app isn't veri ed.

The OAuth consent screen that is presented to the user may show the warning "This app isn't veri ed" if it is requesting scopes
that provide access to sensitive user data. These applications must eventually go through the veri cation process
 (https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/7454865) to remove that warning and other limitations. During the development phase you
can continue past this warning by clicking Advanced > Go to {Project Name} (unsafe).

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Last updated 2019-07-16.

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