• This is a reference for myself and anyone else to get files from an HTML page and upload them to Google Drive

Create A Google Service with Google Drive API enabled

• Go to console.cloud.google.com
• Create a new Google Cloud Project
• Go to APIs & Services > Enable APIS and Services
• Search for the Google Drive API and Enable it
• Go to APIs & Services > Credentials
• Create a new service account
• Click on the new service account and Go to 'Keys' Tab
• Create a new key as a JSON file
• Once downloaded, rename it as 'credentials.json'

Start this application

• Clone this repository
• Put the 'credentials.json' file in the directory of this project
• Install the modules using:

npm install express multer googleapis@105 @google-cloud/[email protected] dotenv

• Create a New Folder in your Google Drive
• Give 'Editor' access to the service account that you created
• Copy the ID of the Folder which is the URL of the folder
• Create a .env file in the main directory and add the following:

PORT=<an-available-port-in-your-device>
GOOGLEDRIVEFOLDERID='<id-of-the-folder-in-your-google-drive>'

• Run the application using:

npm start