Learn how you can use Google Drive API to list files, search for specific files or file types, download and upload files from/to Google Drive in Python.

Google Drive enables you to store your files to the cloud in which you can access them anytime and everywhere in the world. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can list your Google drive files, search over them, download stored files and even upload local files into your drive programmatically using Python.

Here is the table of contents:

• Enable the Drive API
• List Files and Directories
• Upload Files
• Search for Files and Directories
• Download Files

To get started, let’s install required libraries for this tutorial:

pip3 install google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib tabulate requests tqdm

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