Javascript upload file from web page to specific google drive account

Question

I'm developing an web application right now.

What I have so far in the app is this:

<input type="text" id="textToSendToMyGoogleDrive"/>
<button id="upload file to google drive"> Send </button>

This application has a domain, so every one can go to this application from their computer.

What I want to do is when any user put text in the input, and clicks the button, it will make a txt file and send it into my google drive account.

So I have two problems here:

1. How to take the text and make from it a txt file.

2. Send the file to specific google drive account.

Problem number 2 is a problem because I have looked every where in the google drive API, and all I could found is some methods to upload files to the user's google drive, and not to mine. So I tried to search out how to "sign in" the user when he is in the application to my google drive, and I could not find a solution.

If I was not clear on the problems, comment me.

Thank you!

Answer 1

I'am not a expert but correct me if I'am wrong. I think there is a problem with your approach. how about sending your text content as a request parameter to the backend and save it as a .txt from there.

I am suggesting this because, let say you save your file with text content in users computer as described in here .

next step would be to access it from the browser and save it in the google drive. if you planning to do it from the front end without a backend, you have to expose your google credentials to every user.

Before that you wont be able to access a local file from users computer directly from the browser. because most browsers wont allow you to do that. so please change your approach to this.