I believe your goal as follows.
- You want to directly download the file to the memory without creating the data as a file using python.
- From
I need to get a json-file from my GoogleDrive., the file you want to download is the file except for Google Docs files (Spreadsheet, Document, Slides and so on). In this case, it's a text file.
- You have already been able to use Drive API with googleapis for python.
- You are using the script for authorizing from https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/using-google-drive--api-in-python.
In this case, in order to retrieve the file content to the memory, I would like to propose to retrieve it using requests. For this, the access token is retrieved from creds of get_gdrive_service().
In order to retrieve the file content, the method of "Files: get" is used by adding the query parameter of alt=media.
Sample script:
file_id = "###" # Please set the file ID you want to download.
access_token = creds.token
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/" + file_id + "?alt=media"
res = requests.get(url, headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + access_token})
obj = json.loads(res.text)
print(obj)
- At above script,
creds of creds.token is from get_gdrive_service().
- From your question, I thought that the file you want to download is the JSON data. So at above script, the downloaded data is parsed as JSON object.
- In this case, please import
json and requests.
Note:
- When the returned content is JSON data, I think that you can also use
res.json() instead of res.text. But when JSONDecodeError occurs, please check the value of res.text.
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