Make a copy of file from shared google drive to my google drive with Google Drive API v3 C#

Question

My colleague shared with me a lot of university documents and I want to copy them to my google drive.

I start C# .net core application and Google Drive v3 API.

I have

  var request = _dataService.Files.Get(id);
  request.SupportsAllDrives = true;
  request.Fields = "*";

  return request;

Where dataService

  _dataService = new DriveService(new BaseClientService.Initializer
  {
    ApiKey = settingsData.ApiKey,
    ApplicationName = settingsData.ApplicationName
  });

How to copy files ? He sent me file ids so I have access to that file id. How to make a copy to my google drive ? I didn't find anything in documentation.

Answer 1

Is there any reason why you cannot use the method Copy ?

Google.Apis.Drive.v3.Data.File copiedFile = new Google.Apis.Drive.v3.Data.File();
//This will be the body of the request so probably you would want to modify this
copiedFile.Name = "Name of the new file";

string originFileId = "insert fileId to be copied";

FilesResource.CopyRequest copyRequest = service.Files.Copy(copiedFile, originFileId);
// You can change more parameter of the request here

copyRequest.Execute();

You can modify the body of the request through the File object ( copiedFile ) you can look at the parameters in here .

Make sure that you include all relevant scopes.

If you still have doubts about the fields or methods in C# classes you can take a deeper look at the C# doc for the api .

Also I would suggest to try the Quickstart for .NET Drive API and work from there in case the solution above don't work.