Complete Google Drive File Picker example
/**!
* Google Drive File Picker Example
* By Daniel Lo Nigro (http://dan.cx/)
*/
(function() {
/**
* Initialise a Google Driver file picker
*/
var FilePicker = window.FilePicker = function(options) {
// Config
this.apiKey = options.apiKey;
this.clientId = options.clientId;
// Elements
this.buttonEl = options.buttonEl;
// Events
this.onSelect = options.onSelect;
this.buttonEl.addEventListener('click', this.open.bind(this));
// Disable the button until the API loads, as it won't work properly until then.
this.buttonEl.disabled = true;
// Load the drive API
gapi.client.setApiKey(this.apiKey);
gapi.client.load('drive', 'v2', this._driveApiLoaded.bind(this));
google.load('picker', '1', { callback: this._pickerApiLoaded.bind(this) });
}
FilePicker.prototype = {
/**
* Open the file picker.
*/
open: function() {
// Check if the user has already authenticated
var token = gapi.auth.getToken();
if (token) {
this._showPicker();
} else {
// The user has not yet authenticated with Google
// We need to do the authentication before displaying the Drive picker.
this._doAuth(false, function() { this._showPicker(); }.bind(this));
}
},
/**
* Show the file picker once authentication has been done.
* @private
*/
_showPicker: function() {
var accessToken = gapi.auth.getToken().access_token;
this.picker = new google.picker.PickerBuilder().
addView(google.picker.ViewId.DOCUMENTS).
setAppId(this.clientId).
setOAuthToken(accessToken).
setCallback(this._pickerCallback.bind(this)).
build().
setVisible(true);
},
/**
* Called when a file has been selected in the Google Drive file picker.
* @private
*/
_pickerCallback: function(data) {
if (data[google.picker.Response.ACTION] == google.picker.Action.PICKED) {
var file = data[google.picker.Response.DOCUMENTS][0],
id = file[google.picker.Document.ID],
request = gapi.client.drive.files.get({
fileId: id
});
request.execute(this._fileGetCallback.bind(this));
}
},
/**
* Called when file details have been retrieved from Google Drive.
* @private
*/
_fileGetCallback: function(file) {
if (this.onSelect) {
this.onSelect(file);
}
},
/**
* Called when the Google Drive file picker API has finished loading.
* @private
*/
_pickerApiLoaded: function() {
this.buttonEl.disabled = false;
},
/**
* Called when the Google Drive API has finished loading.
* @private
*/
_driveApiLoaded: function() {
this._doAuth(true);
},
/**
* Authenticate with Google Drive via the Google JavaScript API.
* @private
*/
_doAuth: function(immediate, callback) {
gapi.auth.authorize({
client_id: this.clientId + '.apps.googleusercontent.com',
scope: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly',
immediate: immediate
}, callback);
}
};
}());
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Google Drive File Picker Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<button type="button" id="pick">Pick File</button>
<script src="filepicker.js"></script>
<script>
function initPicker() {
var picker = new FilePicker({
apiKey: 'PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
clientId: PUT_YOUR_NUMERIC_CLIENT_ID_HERE,
buttonEl: document.getElementById('pick'),
onSelect: function(file) {
console.log(file);
alert('Selected ' + file.title);
}
});
}
</script>
<script src="https://www.google.com/jsapi?key=PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"></script>
<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/client.js?onload=initPicker"></script>
</body>
</html>
This is an example of how to use the Google Drive file picker and Google Drive API to retrieve files from Google Drive using pure JavaScript. At the time of writing (14th July 2013), Google have good examples for using these two APIs separately, but no documentation on using them together.
Note that this is just sample code, designed to be concise to demonstrate the API. In a production environment, you should include more error handling.
See a demo at http://stuff.dan.cx/js/filepicker/google/
PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE
with your API key (listed under "Key for browser apps" in
Google's API console)PUT_YOUR_NUMERIC_CLIENT_ID_HERE
with the numeric portion of your OAuth2 client ID
(xxxxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com)(The MIT licence)
Copyright (C) 2013 Daniel Lo Nigro (Daniel15)
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