File listing made easy
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*PyDrive* handles paginations and parses response as list of `GoogleDriveFile`_. 

Get all files which matches the query
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Create `GoogleDriveFileList`_ instance with `parameters of Files.list()`_ as ``dict``. Call `GetList()`_ and you will get all files that matches your query as a list of `GoogleDriveFile`_.

.. code-block:: python

    from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive

    drive = GoogleDrive(gauth) # Create GoogleDrive instance with authenticated GoogleAuth instance

    # Auto-iterate through all files in the root folder.
    file_list = drive.ListFile({'q': "'root' in parents and trashed=false"}).GetList()
    for file1 in file_list:
      print('title: %s, id: %s' % (file1['title'], file1['id']))

You can update metadata or content of these `GoogleDriveFile`_ instances if you need it.

Paginate and iterate through files
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*PyDrive* provides Pythonic way of paginating and iterating through list of files. All you have to do is to limit number of results with ``maxResults`` parameter and build ``for`` loop retrieving file list from API each iteration.

Sample code continues from above:

.. code-block:: python

    # Paginate file lists by specifying number of max results
    for file_list in drive.ListFile({'q': 'trashed=true', 'maxResults': 10}):
      print('Received %s files from Files.list()' % len(file_list)) # <= 10
      for file1 in file_list:
          print('title: %s, id: %s' % (file1['title'], file1['id']))


.. _`GoogleDriveFile`: ./pydrive.html#pydrive.files.GoogleDriveFile
.. _`GoogleDriveFileList`: ./pydrive.html#pydrive.files.GoogleDriveFileList
.. _`parameters of Files.list()`: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list#request
.. _`GetList()`: ./pydrive.html#pydrive.apiattr.ApiResourceList.GetList