Sharing files in Google Drive using Python

Question

There are plenty of resources involving sharing files in Google Drive but I can't find anything useful to Python and the references by Google aren't Python-specific.

I've saved an item ID into the variable selected_id. In this case, I want to make that file shareable by URL to anyone for reading.

service.permissions().create(body={"role":"reader", "type":"anyone"}, fileId=selected_id)

This is what I have so far but I don't think I formatted it correctly at all.

Like the title states, how would I share a file by ID on GDrive using Python? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Looks like you've got the correct format as per Permissions:Create

Perhaps you just need to add .execute() on the end?

service.permissions().create(body={"role":"reader", "type":"anyone"}, fileId=selected_id).execute()

Also is you're looking for examples using the Python API check out the following repository: https://github.com/gsuitedevs/python-samples

I would image that you're code might look like something similar to this: https://github.com/gsuitedevs/python-samples/blob/master/drive/driveapp/main.py#L57