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The app I'm working on generates a simple (less than 100K) html documents that does not include any links or images.
I want to "upload" this document directly from the browser to Google drive so that a user can subsequently edit the document on Google drive, taking advantage of its multi-user sharing and editing capabilities.
I can successfully upload the html document to Google drive with this code:
function saveToDrive(tx){
var boundary = '-------314159265358979323846';
var delimiter = "\r\n--" + boundary + "\r\n";
var close_delim = "\r\n--" + boundary + "--";
var doc = "<html><body>" + tx.html + "</body></html>";
var metadata = {
'title': tx.client_name,
'mimeType': 'application/json'
};
var multipartRequestBody =
delimiter +
'Content-Type: application/json\r\n\r\n' +
JSON.stringify(metadata) +
delimiter +
'Content-Type: ' + 'text/html' + '\r\n' +
'\r\n' +
doc +
close_delim;
gapi.client.request({
'path': '/upload/drive/v2/files',
'method': 'POST',
'params': {'uploadType': 'multipart'},
'headers': {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/mixed; boundary="' + boundary + '"'
},
'body': multipartRequestBody
}).execute(function(res){console.log(res)});
}
This uploads results in a document on Google drive that cannot be edited or opened as a Google document.
I have also tried using 'application/vnd.google-apps.document' as the mimeType of the document.
Is there a way to convert the document to a format that can be edited on drive as a Google document? Note I have tried added convert=true as a parameter but that didn't work.
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Are you sure convert:true parameter did not work? I got your code working for me. Everything is the same as you have above, except 'convert':'true' and Authorization header was added.
var request = gapi.client.request({
'path': '/upload/drive/v2/files',
'method': 'POST',
'params': {'uploadType': 'multipart', 'convert':'true'},
'headers': {
'Authorization':'Bearer '+tokenGot,
'Content-Type': 'multipart/mixed; boundary="' + boundary + '"'
},
'body': multipartRequestBody
answered Jan 04 '26 12:01
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