Google - Drive¶

Interact and perform various operations through a Google account. Download, upload and manage files easily via the BotCity plugin for Google Drive.

Installation¶

PythonJava

pip install botcity-googledrive-plugin

Importing the Plugin¶

After you installed this package and get the Google credentials file, the next step is to import the package into your code and start using the functions.

PythonJava

from botcity.plugins.googledrive import BotGoogleDrivePlugin

Searching for a file¶

To make the example we will instantiate the plugin and search for a file by name.

PythonJava

# Set the path of the credentials json file
credentials = './resources/credentials.json'

# Instantiate the plugin
googledrive = BotGoogleDrivePlugin(credentials)

# Get the id of the file named "my_image.png" stored on the drive
file_id = googledrive.search_file_by_name("my_image.png")

Downloading a file¶

Now let's download the file we searched for in the step above.

PythonJava

# With the obtained id, download the file
googledrive.download_file(file_id, './images/my_image_from_drive.png')

Complete code¶

Let's take a look into the complete code:

PythonJava

# Import the plugin
from botcity.plugins.googledrive import BotGoogleDrivePlugin

# Set the path of the credentials json file
credentials = './resources/credentials.json'

# Instantiate the plugin
googledrive = BotGoogleDrivePlugin(credentials)

# Get the id of the file named "my_image.png" stored on the drive
file_id = googledrive.search_file_by_name("my_image.png")

# With the obtained id, download the file
googledrive.download_file(file_id, './images/my_image_from_drive.png')