Google Drive API configuration

The google drive API is a bit overcomplicated for simple use cases, and doesn't provide a simple authentication scheme using an API key. Instead, we have to use oauth (with a client library which touches the filesystem!?) or a service account.

Resources

• https://developers.google.com/drive/api/reference/rest/v3/permissions#Permission
• https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/search-shareddrives
• https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/service-account?authuser=3#python

Steps

1. Go to console.cloud.google.com

2. Create a new project named csss-site-backend

3. Create a service account

4. Download the service key and put it under /csss-site-backend

• use the name google_key.json

5. Enable Domain-Wide Delegation @ admin.google.com

• follow https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/service-account?authuser=3#delegatingauthority:~:text=To%20delegate%20domain%2Dwide%20authority
• give access to the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive scope