Well, not everything is perfect, and we have to deal with it the same goes with the google service account(GSA).GSA doesn’t have any GUI, as provided by Google, so we won’t be able to see the files we are uploading.
Now let’s click on the APIs and Services link from the console and search for Drive APIs and Services > Search (Drive)Īnd Enable the API, I’ve already enabled it so this is how it should look after you enable it. It’s an important step to take care of there are a lot of services that are provided by google, here we are enabling the ability to use google drive API for our google service account. After completing all above steps here’s how the console would look.Īnd the Google Service account is ready to use. Now that we know it is important to have a google service account to make our google drive API work, let’s create our google service account with the following steps: Basic Setup:Ĥ. Any transaction with Google Drive will be done on the accounts of this service account from your library. It’s a google account for your Library Instance. Applications use service accounts to make authorized API calls, authorized as either the service account itself or as Google Workspace or Cloud Identity users through domain-wide delegation. Google Service AccountĪ service account is a special account used by an application or computer workload, such as a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance, rather than a person. Primary user google drive account (You will know why to have a primary google drive account). So initial steps for setting up the library include:Ģ. Getting started with Google Drive APIs is simple, and the official documentation is very helpful. So instead of sending the attachments directly with the mail, we replaced them with a google drive link uploaded on the drive. Due to some reason, the emails were not getting sent, and later we found out the attachments being sent were causing us trouble.
There can be a lot of reasons for a developer to utilize a certain library, but here let me tell you mine.
What made me utilize Google Drive API in my project? Launched in 2012, Google Drive is one of the most popular, revolutionary applications from Google who could have imagined data sharing could be this simple? Google Drive is a cloud-based, user-friendly data storage service from Google, which helps in providing remote access to the files uploaded over its cloud system. Maintaining our server’s storage gets tedious, but what if it can be done for you by some provider?
As developers, we often face issues in maintaining, protecting and scaling the data of our server application.
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