Posted: 4/30/2020
For some time, I had the idea to use Python to automate some of my file management tasks regarding my Google Drive account.
However, I quickly realized that Google opted for overkill and to overcomplicate programmatic access to the Google Drive API. You have to choose between two forms of authentication, multiple roles, access scopes, and permissions etc. Just mind boggling!
There is a Python project called PyDrive ("PyDrive is a wrapper library of google-api-python-client that simplifies many common Google Drive API tasks."), but it appears to be inactive or even abandoned since October 2016. Apparently, this project was not sponsored by Google.
If you have a whole IT department to do the work for you, you may succeed!
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