Save To Drive

Save To Drive is a small CLI application to upload files and folders to google drive.

Getting Started

1. Set up your google cloud project and get your credentials.json file following How-to-get-the-credentials.json-file

2. Install save-to-drive

npm i -g save-to-drive

3. Create a JSON saves file following Saves-file or by checking the example files in data/ folder

4. Learn about the available options

save-to-drive -h

5. To start uploading an element using the saves file, run :

save-to-drive -s absolute/path/to/saves -c absolute/path/to/credentials.json

Tips

How to get the credentials.json file

You first need to create a google cloud project following https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-project. Then, get your credentials.json file following https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-credentials#oauth-client-id.

Saves file

Saves files are in JSON format following this structure:

• path (str): Path of the element to save
• options (array)
  • mimeType (str): mimeType of the element to save
  • deleteExisting (bool): delete first encountered file or folder with the same name as the element to save
  • baseFolderId (str): Id of the folder where the element to save will be uploaded
  • ignore (array): List of files and folders to ignore within the element to save