upload files to google drive using python

upload-to-google-drive.py

import requests, json

# Get refresh token from google drive api
# Generating a refresh token for DRIVE API calls using the OAuth playground
# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWe1gPCnzc
def getToken():
	oauth = 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token' # Google API oauth url
	headers = {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
	data = {
        'grant_type': 'refresh_token',
        'client_id': '####',
        'client_secret': '####', 
        'refresh_token': '####',
    }

	token = requests.post(oauth, headers=headers, data=data)
	_key = json.loads(token.text)
	return _key['access_token']

# Upload files to google drive using access token
def upload2Drive(files):
	TOKEN_KEY = getToken()
	headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer "+TOKEN_KEY}
	upload = requests.post(
	    "https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart",
	    headers=headers,
	    files=files
	)
	print(upload.text)


if __name__ == '__main__':
	file = "my-upload-test.zip" # change your file name
	
	para = {
	    "name": file, #file name to be uploaded
	    "parents": ["####"] # make a folder on drive in which you want to upload files; then open that folder; the last thing in present url will be folder id
	}
	files = {
	    'data': ('metadata', json.dumps(para), 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'),
	    'file': ('application/zip',open("./"+file, "rb")) # replace 'application/zip' by 'image/png' for png images; similarly 'image/jpeg' (also replace your file name)
	}

	upload2Drive(files)

Awesome, was very useful for me