Google Drive API V2 , Python — create new file without uploading new file and without using Google Drive UI

Question

All the documentation I have found related to creating a new file and putting the new file in a user's Google Drive folder is achieved with the user uploading a file and having the python script use MediaFileUpload to gather the file and put it in Drive.

I want to create a new file in my GAE code, and put that. For example my code renders a new XML string after hitting database, and I would like to take that string, make it a file and put in Google Drive.

Anyone working with something like this?

Answer 1

You should use a MediaInMemoryUpload instead, which is designed for this exact purpose. You can pass a string and a MIME type.

media = MediaInMemoryUpload('some data', 'text/plain')

Answer 2

Use following code, content is the string you're going to put. You don't have to use MediaFileUpload and python client library.

def update(content, file_id):
    url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v2/files/%s?uploadType=media' % file_id
    headers = {
        'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
        'Content-Length': str(len(content)),
        'Authorization': 'Bearer <oauth2 token>'
        }
    response = urlfetch.fetch(url, payload=content, method='PUT', headers=headers)
    assert response.status_code == 200
    return response.content