Intro:
I wanted to give up countless times. You never know how hopeless I was every time I found a Google Drive API tutorial video on YouTube not very helpful. Also, there're fewer related posts about how to implement Google Drive API with React. It did take me a few days to figure them out and record some important details as much as I can remember in this blog.
H1Google OAuth2
Using react-oauth can make your life easier.
index.js
jsx
<GoogleOAuthProvider clientId="...">
<App />
</GoogleOAuthProvider>H2Login
jsx
import { useGoogleLogin } from "@react-oauth/google";
const login = useGoogleLogin({
onSuccess: async (res) => {
// localStorage.setItem("access_token", res.access_token);
},
onError: () => {
console.log("Login Failed");
},
scope: "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive",
});Note: Don't forget to set
scope(A space-delimited list of scopes. The type is String). Otherwise, you have no permission to use some Google APIs.
H2Logout
jsx
import { googleLogout } from "@react-oauth/google";
const logout = () => {
googleLogout();
// localStorage.removeItem("access_token");
};H2Get UserInfo
jsx
useEffect(() => {
if (token) {
axios
.get("https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/userinfo", {
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
})
.then((userInfo) => {
// setUser(userInfo.data);
})
.catch((err) => {
// localStorage.removeItem("access_token");
console.error(err);
});
}
}, [token]);H1Google Drive & Picker
H2Set up
Follow Drive API - JavaScript quickstart doc to set up and run an app that calls a Google Workspace API.
H2Get file from Google Drive
GoogleDrivePicker.jsx
jsx
const handleOpenPicker = () => {
openPicker({
clientId:
"...",
developerKey: "...",
viewMimeTypes: "application/json",
token: token,
supportDrives: true,
callbackFunction: (data) => {
switch (data.action) {
case "cancel":
console.log("User clicked cancel/close button");
break;
case "picked":
onFileUpload(
`https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/${data.docs[0].id}?alt=media&key=...`,
data.docs[0].name
);
break;
default:
}
},
});
};Note: You can get
tokenafter you login succesfully.
Get file from Google Drive (In this scenario, the file I want to get is a JSON file.):
jsx
const onFileUploadDrive = (url, name) => {
localStorage.setItem("cv_data_file_name", name);
axios
.get(url, {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${localStorage.getItem("access_token")}`,
Accept: "application/json",
},
})
.then((res) => {
// console.log(res.data);
})
.catch((error) => {
console.error("Fetch error:", error);
});
};H2Upload file to Google Drive
References:
jsx
const onSaveDrive = () => {
const token = localStorage.getItem("access_token");
if (token) {
const jsonData = JSON.stringify(cvData);
const file = new File([jsonData], fileName);
axios
.post(
`https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?key=...`,
file,
{
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
Accept: "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
}
)
.then((res) => {
axios
.patch(
`https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/${res.data.id}?key=...`,
{
name: fileName,
description:
"This CV metadata is downloaded from cv.harriswong.top",
},
{
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
Accept: "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
}
)
.then((res1) => {
setIsShowSave(false);
setOpenUpload(true);
});
})
.catch((error) => {
console.error("Fetch error:", error);
});
} else {
setOpenSignIn(true);
}
};The reason why there are two requests to be send is because I can't find a way to upload a JSON file to Goole Drive with a file name. So my strategy is upload a Untitled file to Drive and then update its file name.
Videos:
- Google File Picker API to Select Google Drive Files Example in JavaScript
- How to use Google Drive API to upload, delete and create a public URL for a file.
H1Make it public
If you want some Google API services on your deployed website to work properly, you need to make it public in OAuth consent screen.
The process of publishing your app is not very hard but troublesome. They need you to make a YouTube video to explain how to secure user data. Yeh I kinda quit. I know nobody's gonna use my web app hahah unless I advertise it.
