Welcome to PyDrive’s documentation!

PyDrive is a wrapper library of google-api-python-client that simplifies many common Google Drive API tasks.

Project Info

• Homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyDrive
• Documentation: Official documentation on GitHub pages
• Github: https://github.com/googledrive/PyDrive

How to install

You can install PyDrive with regular pip command.

$ pip install PyDrive

To install the current development version from GitHub, use:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/googledrive/PyDrive.git#egg=PyDrive

Table of Contents

• Quickstart
  • Authentication
  • Creating and updating file
  • Getting list of files
• OAuth made easy
  • Authentication in two lines
  • Automatic and custom authentication with settings.yaml
  • Building your own authentication flow
• File management made easy
  • Upload a new file
  • Delete, Trash and un-Trash files
  • Update file metadata
  • Download file metadata from file ID
  • Handling special metadata
  • Upload and update file content
  • Download file content
• File listing made easy
  • Get all files which matches the query
  • Paginate and iterate through files
• pydrive package
  • pydrive.apiattr module
  • pydrive.auth module
  • pydrive.drive module
  • pydrive.files module
  • pydrive.settings module

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page