I want to write a program that downloads files from my Drive systematically, and uploads them elsewhere in my Drive. In order to use the Drive API, does my program have to be on the Drive app store? Or can it simply be used privately and locally on my computer.
The Google Drive API is just a rest api.
REST-compliant Web services allow requesting systems to access and manipulate textual representations of Web resources using a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations.
Which basically means access runs over a webserver. Any programing language that can handle a HTTP POST and HTTP Get can access these rest APIs. You can write an application in java or C# that sits on your local pc and accesses Google drive API.
I am not sure what you mean by drive app store. To my knowledge drive does not have its own dedicated app store.
Note: to access Google APIs you must register your application on Google Developer console
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I am trying to make a desktop application with Twitch API and Google API.
Since this application requires Twitch user permission, a user needs to authorize my application through twitch's OAuth and I think there's no way to omit this process.
Now, I want to add some functionalities from Goole APIs, for instance TTS.
My application will be installed and run on user's local machine,
it cannot store API key or credential information safely.
I think I have three options:
Add Google OAuth: This is most safe way, I think, but I don't think I can convince users to authorize another Google account even though they already authorized their Twitch account.
Make a kind of proxy server which verifies request for Google API using twitch authentication information and relays request to/response from Google API. This seems feasible but it requires additional payment to running server for sending data from Google API. I already have to pay for TTS service, another payment for proxy server which sends binary data frequently would be a financial burden for me.
Make a server to acquire API key for Google API. This also requires additional server, but it does not involve lots of traffic because application will access Google API directly once API key acquired. However, I concern that the API key may be easily stolen using monitoring tool such as wireshark.
Which method should I use here, and how can I improve it?
Or, is there better way for this case?
I am working on adding support for our cloud storage solution to MS Teams but there is no central server you can send http messages to and get meaningful relies back from. I have no experience with creating Teams apps so I was hoping someone with Teams apps experience could tell me if this is even possible. At this point I only need my app to work on Windows and OS X.
This is how I would like my Teams App to work:
Each member of the team already has our cloud storage app running locally on their machine which provides access to the files.
Within MS Teams the user adds a file reference to a message via a message extension that would result in a link unfurl creating a card that contains an 'Open' button. The URL in the card would be one generated by our locally running cloud storage app. Other members of the team could then open this file by clicking the 'Open' button. The action of the open button would be to send the URL to our cloud storage app that would then open the local copy of the file on that team members machine.
Is it possible to do something like this within a Teams app? The communication between the Teams app and our cloud storage app would be done over our own protocol.
If it weren't for the fact that all bot communication must be done over https rather than http the local cloud storage app could act as the server.
All the communication in Teams with 3P apps needs to happen over https public endpoint. You could use ngrok to tunnel to local.
I'm totally new to PWA (rather I'm still considering adopting PWA or go Electron).
Looking at the concept and guides of the app on the web, it seems that the capability of it is to this extent, thus;
Access web APIs securely and easily
Yes, as it is the alternative implementation of web apps.
Access local storage of the PC for the app
Yes, through HTML5 web storage.
Access any local files in the PC
No?
Communicate with another desktop app through TCP connection
Yes? By posting/getting some query to localhost for example?
Obtain system info like PC status or installation path of another desktop app
No?
How many of my understandings are correct? Is there another capability or limitation to be specially noted?
in my account the google drive api is disabled but still when I authenticate a thirdparty app using oauth2.0 it can access my drive files. Then what is the use of this enable api.
Cloud developer console is a place for developers to create applications. when you create a new application you must decide which APIs will be used by that application.
I authenticate a third party app using oauth2.0 it can access my drive files
Unless you are the developer of the third party application setting this will not have any effect on what applications created by other developers can do with your account. If you dont want them accessing your drive account then dont install any third party applications that request permission to access your drive account.
The simple question version is as stated: Is there a programmatic API to access vault info on a SanDisk SecureAccess drive (without installing the SecureAccess manager UI)?
Here's what the business requirements are though, in case anyone can suggest an alternate solution.
Secure information on USB drive so that it cannot be copied to another drive.
Access this information via C# .NET 2.0.
Cannot call a remote service to check for keys/validate/etc. It must be self-contained.
We were previously using SanDisk USB drives with U3 but this technology has been discontinued. We basically need a "1 application instance per UBS drive" solution.