set new file name when using google drive.files.copy

Question

I'm using google drive apiv3 to copy a spreadsheet into a folder on google drive. The documentation states the "name" property should be used to set the title of the new sheet. I'm using this, but newly created sheets are named "Copy of {titleOfSheetToCopy}".

request:

app.get('/new', function (req, res) 
{
    var drive = google.drive({version:'v3', auth: jwt_client});

    var copyRequest = {
        name: 'im a copy',
        fileId: 'idOfSheetToClone',
        parents: ['idOfDestinationFolder'],
    }

    drive.files.copy(copyRequest,  function(err, response){
        if(err){
            console.log(err);
            res.send('error');
            return;
        }
        res.send(response);
    });
});

response:

{
"config": {
    "url": "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/-----/copy?name=im%20a%20copy&parents=---",
    "method": "POST",
    "headers": {
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
        "User-Agent": "google-api-nodejs-client/0.7.2 (gzip)",
        "Authorization": "---",
        "Accept": "application/json"
    },
    "params": {
        "name": "im a copy",
        "parents": [
            "---"
        ]
    },
    "responseType": "json"
},
"data": {
    "kind": "drive#file",
    "id": "---",
    "name": "Copy of _template",
    "mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet"
},
"headers": {
    "alt-svc": "quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,43\",h3-Q050=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q049=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q048=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=\":443\"; ma=2592000",
    "cache-control": "no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate",
    "connection": "close",
    "content-encoding": "gzip",
    "content-type": "application/json; charset=UTF-8",
    "date": "Mon, 25 Nov 2019 05:37:01 GMT",
    "expires": "Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT",
    "pragma": "no-cache",
    "server": "GSE",
    "transfer-encoding": "chunked",
    "vary": "Origin, X-Origin",
    "x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
    "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN",
    "x-xss-protection": "1; mode=block"
},
"status": 200,
"statusText": "OK"
}

can see that response.data.name shows the default naming instead of "i'm a copy".

Any direction would be appreciated. Thanks

https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/files/copy

Answer 1

• You want to copy a file using the method of Files: copy in Drive API v3.
• You want to achieve this using googleapis with Node.js.
• You have already been able to use Drive API.

If my understanding is correct, how about this answer?

Modified script:

In this modification, copyRequest and drive.files.copy() were modified as follows.

var copyRequest = {  // Modified
  name: "im a copy",
  parents: ["idOfDestinationFolder"]
};

drive.files.copy(
  {  // Modified
    fileId: "idOfSheetToClone",
    requestBody: copyRequest  // or resource: copyRequest
  },
  function(err, response) {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      res.send("error");
      return;
    }
    res.send(response);
  }
);

Note:

• If an error occurs, please use the latest version of googleapis.

Reference:

• Files: copy

If I misunderstood your question and this was not the result you want, I apologize.