How can I access a Team Drive instead of personal Google Drive using PyDrive?

Question

I am trying to use PyDrive to programmatically list and then download files stored on a Team Drive that I can access in a browser. When I do this:

from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive

gauth = GoogleAuth()
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)

file_list = drive.ListFile(
    {
        'q': "'root' in parents and trashed=false",
        'corpora': "teamDrive",
        'teamDriveId': <team drive ID>,
        'includeTeamDriveItems': "true",
        'supportsTeamDrives': "true"
    }
).GetList()
for file1 in file_list:
    print('title: %s, id: %s' % (file1['title'], file1['id']))

I only get the list of files on my personal drive, not the team drive. What am I doing wrong?

Note1: I got the <team drive ID> by opening the Team Drive (the root folder) in the browser and copying everything after "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/"

Note2: Browser pops up at drive.ListFile and gives Authentication successful.

Cliff · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-14T20:17:56.523

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In a team drive, files can only have one parent folder and a team drive file's parent is never root.

I was able to use the drive id again instead of root to get this to work, but I also used boolean values for true instead of strings:

drive.ListFile({'q':"'<Team_Drive_Id_Or_Folder_Id>' in parents and trashed=false", 'corpora': 'teamDrive', 'teamDriveId': '<Team_Drive_Id>', 'includeTeamDriveItems': True, 'supportsTeamDrives': True}).GetList()

edited Jun 14 '19 at 20:17

answered Jun 07 '19 at 01:37

Cliff

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Thanks that worked. Now I need to figure out how to download those files. Can't seem to do it with team drive files, only with files in my drive... – I Z Jun 18 '19 at 13:36
Thanks! This worked for me as well even with the update to Shared drives. – Amanda Watson Jul 18 '19 at 20:12
How do I get Team_Drive_Id value? – Brannon Apr 28 '22 at 14:53
This still works with the current version of shared drives in Workspace. – Jano Horváth Dec 18 '22 at 18:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 14 '23 at 19:06

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Upgrade to pydrive2 which supports this natively.

answered Jan 14 '23 at 19:06

jkp

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