Retrieving Specific Folders from Google Drive using Google Apps Script

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Retrieving Specific Folders from Google Drive using Google Apps Script

These are sample scripts for retrieving specific folders from Google Drive using Google Drive service (DriveApp) with Google Apps Script.

Retrieving folders in own Google Drive

const folders = DriveApp.searchFolders(
  `'${Session.getActiveUser().getEmail()}' in owners and trashed=false`
);
const res = [];
while (folders.hasNext()) {
  const folder = folders.next();
  res.push(folder.getName());
}
console.log(res);

Retrieving folders in shared Drives

const folders = DriveApp.searchFolders(
  `not '${Session.getActiveUser().getEmail()}' in owners and trashed=false`
);
const res = [];
while (folders.hasNext()) {
  const folder = folders.next();
  const owner = folder.getOwner();
  if (owner === null) {
    res.push(folder.getName());
  }
}
console.log(res);

Retrieving folders of sharedWithMe

const folders = DriveApp.searchFolders(`sharedWithMe`);
const res = [];
while (folders.hasNext()) {
  const folder = folders.next();
  res.push(folder.getName());
}
console.log(res);