Google Drive API - Get the id of a file when Insert - Python

[Rameez Raja]

I wrote a piece of code in python to upload a file to google drive, which was successful. But I cant able to fetch the file id after the upload. Could you guys please help me to get that.

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DRIVE = build('drive', 'v2', http=http)

FILES = (
    ('sample.csv', True),
)

for filename,convert in FILES:
    metadata = {'title': filename}
    res = DRIVE.files().insert(convert=convert, body=metadata, media_body=filename,fields='mimeType').execute()
    print(res)
     print(a)
     if res:
         print('Uploaded "%s" (%s)' % (filename, res['mimeType']))

Thank you

[Alex (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi there,

Assuming you have provided the right Authorization Scope to access the Google Drive API, here is a method(adapted from this link) to retrieve the id of the last file you uploaded:

results = DRIVE.files().list(maxResults=1).execute()

   items = results.get('items', [])

   if not items:

       print('No files found.')

   else:

       print('Files:')

       for item in items:

           print('{0} ({1})'.format(item['title'], item['id']))

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