How to retrieve the titles of a folder's children in Google Drive?

Question

It appears that listing the children of a folder doesn't actually return the titles of said children according to the Google Drive documentation.

Do I have to query using the id of every single child to determine the name of the file/folder?

Thanks!

EDIT:

Just occurred to me, is the way around this to do a search where the parent id is equal to the folder id I want to see the contents of?

Answer 1

You are absolutely correct, listing the children of a folder only gives you their ids, so you have to send other queries to retrieve titles and the other metadata. I agree this is not optimal and we are considering making some changes here to improve the developer experience.

In the meanwhile, I'd recommend adopting your workaround and search for those files whose parent is the folder you want to see the contents of.