Google Drive API

The Google Drive API allows clients to access resources from Google Drive.

Service: googleapis.com/drive/v2

To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.

Discovery document

A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:

Service endpoint

A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:

  • https://www.googleapis.com

REST Resource: v2.about

Methods
get GET /drive/v2/about
Gets the information about the current user along with Drive API settings

REST Resource: v2.apps

Methods
get GET /drive/v2/apps/{appId}
Gets a specific app.
list GET /drive/v2/apps
Lists a user's installed apps.

REST Resource: v2.changes

Methods
get GET /drive/v2/changes/{changeId}
Deprecated: Use changes.getStartPageToken and changes.list to retrieve recent changes.
getStartPageToken GET /drive/v2/changes/startPageToken
Gets the starting pageToken for listing future changes.
list GET /drive/v2/changes
Lists the changes for a user or shared drive.
watch POST /drive/v2/changes/watch
Subscribe to changes for a user.

REST Resource: v2.channels

Methods
stop POST /drive/v2/channels/stop
Stops watching resources through this channel.

REST Resource: v2.children

Methods
delete DELETE /drive/v2/files/{folderId}/children/{childId}
Removes a child from a folder.