google-drive-utils v0.9.7

google-drive-utils

Status: Work In Progress

Description

Utils for Google Drive API to get rid of boilerplate code duplicates in projects. Implementation of routine tasks migrating from one project to another.

Features

• Google Auth with default project credentials.
• Get file IDs list by name.
• Create new Google Sheets file.
• Delete file.
• Delete existing files with same name.
• New functions will be added as soon as new requirements arise.

Additional

• NodeJS
• TypeScript
• Google Drive API
• xojs/xo with plugins for TypeScript - linting in CLI
• ESLint - linting in the WebStorm with ESLint plugin

Installation

npm install --save google-drive-utils

Usage

1. Add your Google Service account to the Google Drive folder editors role.

2. Enable Google Drive API in your project.

3. Add file default-credentials.json with google cloud service account auth key to the root of project. This file could be downloaded from Google Cloud IAM console or Firebase Console.

4. Add .env file with contents:

   GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=default-credentials.json

5. Add env-cmd package to the project

   npm install --save-dev env-cmd

6. Add google-drive-utils to the project

   npm install --save google-drive-utils

7. Run project with env-cmd. Example for cloud functions below:

   env-cmd npx @google-cloud/functions-framework --target=index --function-signature=myFunction

Code Example:

import {GoogleDriveUtils} from 'google-drive-utils';

const utils = await GoogleDriveUtils.create(); // or getInstance() if you want to use a singleton across the project.
console.log(await utils.getFileIdsByName('somefilename', 'some-directory-id'));
console.log(await utils.deleteExistingFiles('somefilename', 'some-directory-id'));

// have a look at GoogleDriveUtils class for more helpful methods

License

MIT (c) 2020 Viacheslav Dobromyslov <viacheslav@dobromyslov.ru>