The Google drive api has an endpoint which we can use to create and upload files directly to google drive. The Google Drive API endpoint I am referring to is called Files Create, it takes the file metadata, and a file stream and returns to you a file resource object […]
This Tutorial was completely rewritten in April, 2021 Uploading files to the Google Drive API V3 can be a little confusing in the beginner. I have seen a lot of questions and issues related to it on Stack Overflow over the years. These issues normally stem from the fact that […]
Accessing the Google apis with asp .net core can be a little tricky to set up. I have seen a lot of questions about it on Stack overflow the last few years. Today I thought we would have a look at setting up the Google Apis .net client library to […]
Are you working on an application where you would like to download large files from Google drive? This simple tutorial will show you how to download large files by chunks. Setup The first thing you will need to do is create a new project on Google developer console. For this […]
Yesterday a question popped up on Stack Overflow like I normally do with questions on stack that I feel confident enough in, I answered it and moved on. However something about it just stuck in my head and over the last day I have been thinking about it. This morning […]
Are you working on an application that needs to access Google Analytics data. Would you like to extract your Google analytics data? The Google Analytics Reporting API allows us to do just that. Once we are authenticated we can access a users Google Analytics data. In this tutorial I am […]
Are you working on an application that needs download files from a users Google Drive account. I am going to show you how to do that using C# and the Google .Net Client library. Prerequisite The first thing we will need to do is import the Google Drive API v3 […]
Are you working on an application that needs list the files from a users Google Drive account. Would you like to find only the directories on the currently authenticated users drive account? or possibly return only a single file type? This information can be found using the file.list method with […]
Are you working on an application that uses one of the Google APIs. Have you encounter one of the following errors? 403 userRateLimitExceeded 403 rateLimitExceeded 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED These errors are basically flood protection. Your application is running to fast. When you see these errors Google recommends you implement Exponential Backoff. […]
A are you trying to delete files from the Share with me folder on Google Drive? Do you just want to list the files in the share with me folder on Google Drive. I am going to show you how to do both of those things using the C# client […]
