How can I upload files to google drive that are in a url?

Question

I try to upload a photo that I have in a URL on another server, but it does not work for me or I do not know how to upload them in this case I am going to upload a photo but I also want to upload files that will upload to that URL.

const img = await fetch("http://example.com/api/photo")

await gapi.client.drive.files.create({
  resource: {
    name: "New Folder",
    body: img,
  }
})

Answer 1

I believe your goal as follows.

• You want to download an image data from an URL, and want to upload the downloaded image data to Google Drive.
  • From your script, the image data is downloaded by const img = await fetch("http://example.com/api/photo").
• You want to achieve this using googleapis for Javascript.

Modification points:

• In this case, it retrieves Blob of image data from fetch, and the blob is uploaded to Google Drive.
• Unfortunately, in the current stage, it seems that although googleapis for Javascript can create new file with the metadata, the file content cannot be included. By this, in this answer, I use the method of this thread. The downloaded image data is uploaded using fetch with multipart/form-data.

When above poiints are reflected to your script, it becomes as follows.

Modified script:

const img = await fetch("http://example.com/api/photo").then((e) => e.blob());

const fileMetadata = {name: "sampleName"}; // Please set filename.
const form = new FormData();
form.append('metadata', new Blob([JSON.stringify(fileMetadata)], {type: 'application/json'}));
form.append('file', img);
fetch('https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: new Headers({'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + gapi.auth.getToken().access_token}),
  body: form
}).then(res => res.json()).then(res => console.log(res));

• By this modification, the downloaded image data is uploaded to Google Drive with multipart/form-data.

Note:

• In this modification, it supposes as follows.
  • Your URL of http://example.com/api/photo is the direct link of the image data.
  • Your authorization script can be used for uploading a file to Google Drive.
• In this answer, as a sample script, the file is uploaded with uploadType=multipart. In this case, the maximum file size is 5 MB. Please be careful this. When you want to upload the file with the large size, please check the resumable upload. Ref

References:

• Google API Client Library for JavaScript
• Using Fetch
• Files: create
• Upload file data
• Related question
  • How I can upload file to google drive with google drive api?

Answer 2

The simple anwser is you cant do it like that. The file being Uploaded must be sent in the form of a stream

Download the file to your own machine and then upload it from there. Or try to figure out how to turn your url into a stream.

var fileMetadata = {
  'name': 'photo.jpg'
};
var media = {
  mimeType: 'image/jpeg',
  body: fs.createReadStream('files/photo.jpg')
};
drive.files.create({
  resource: fileMetadata,
  media: media,
  fields: 'id'
}, function (err, file) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle error
    console.error(err);
  } else {
    console.log('File Id: ', file.id);
  }
});