I'm looking to transfer ownership of a specific Google Docs file using the Google Apps API. There are many accounts on a single Google Apps domain. There are many files I would like to transfer so I do not want to do it manually.
In the UI I've only seen the ability to transfer ownership of all files from a particular user rather than individual files.
I've looked through the GitHub page for the google-api-ruby-client gem, but I was unable to come up with a solution. Can someone point me in the right direction or post an example?
You'll need to use the Google Drive API. Specifically the Permissions "update" method.
First find/get the File ID, using the Files.List method, which will allow you to search using a query. Then use the Permissions.Update (or Patch) method, making sure to set the transferOwnership parameter to True.
Full documentation is here: Google Drive API - Permissions
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I am new to Google Drive API. I read on the google quickstart guide that we can access list of documents from our drive but can we do the same with the documents shared privately to us. Like if someone gave me view access of the document from their drive, Can I download it with Google drive API? I am trying to do this in a spring-boot application.
Yes, you can use Files.list() to list the files shared with you. To do so you should use the q parameter to filter those files. For example, you may use 'SaumyaShah#gmail.com' in readers if you want to list the files that have been shared with you. Here you can learn more about the q parameter. For further information about how to download those files, please follow this guide. Feel free to leave a comment if you still have doubts about these approaches.
I am a beginner trying out api for fun.
The problem is, lets say, I want to write a simple windows program with golang to let my friends read and edit one of the sheets saved on my google drive. How can I do this without having them download a credential file?
What I want it to do is simply redirect them to the Oauth Page right away, and if their email address is one recognized by the app it will grant them access to that google sheet.
What i think you need is to integrate your go app with Oauth protocol.
More specifically, with the Google provider.
This is mainly 3 steps:
add the oauth client to your application
something like this: https://github.com/golang/oauth2
See their docs on how to do it.
go to google dev documentation and see how to integrate google auth flow into the client: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2
I'm not sure if google has something more specific for google drive integration and/or go-lang client in particular. Please do some searching.
make the glue code on your go app so that the user can interact with this (the login button (or command, if it is terminal based), error messages, logout, etc)
More questions will appear when you start to do this, however it is a great example to learn Oauth as well.
General guidelines:
https all the queries or oauth is basically useless
oatuh has many auth-flows and you must choose which one(s) you support. use whatever google documentation recommends for m2m scenario (machine 2 machine)
log errors so that your friends can send you a log file for you to debug issues
maybe set some feature flag so that you can simply disable this feature to run/test localhost ? maybe useful? you decide.
Is there a way to get Email/Website of a particular place using Google Places API? If this is not possible is there a way other than using Google API?
To retrieve a places website address using Google Places API, you could perform a Places Autocomplete Request with the input parameter value set to the name of the place: e.g.input=Amoeba
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=Amoeba&sensor=false&key=your_api_key
Then using the reference from the response you could perform a Places Details Request: e.g.
reference=ClRMAAAAVzPUTLym999EXs4mKkpTqEmzX0a2kfXCUs4enTvWMHDd06VLvlzsGOdfrRd2QvkiRWs4sNkraAAJlMdytt4O4kYGoJZn4ENL5Ig5QYyeJmMSECDOGMO1MnDFtqzdqD8oDk0aFJr8_s-Y946QOz24YubPUsmoC2vl
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?reference=ClRMAAAAVzPUTLym999EXs4mKkpTqEmzX0a2kfXCUs4enTvWMHDd06VLvlzsGOdfrRd2QvkiRWs4sNkraAAJlMdytt4O4kYGoJZn4ENL5Ig5QYyeJmMSECDOGMO1MnDFtqzdqD8oDk0aFJr8_s-Y946QOz24YubPUsmoC2vl&sensor=false&key=you_api_key
This would return the details for Amoeba including if available, the parameter website which would contain the places website address.
Google Places API provides Details requests and responses using your API key.
The tag allows for the google places url for that places
e.g.
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=10704550479004381649
If you wish to harvest website, fax and opening hours information, it can only be done here.
There is no direct api in the Google Places API that will provide that info.
Just as addressComponents are part of the Details response, i assume tags will be added to the Place Details responses from the API to address this problem.
I have been trying to use Google Places API, and I have successful queries, fetching Places details, which has all the address information for the place I want to find, but ironically, there is NO WEBSITE attribute in the returned JSON!
The first version of Local search was MUCH better, and always accurate for searches when you know the business name.
This is a similar question to How can i get list of Domain user's from Google Apps account?
However, I'd like to use a normal account (not an administrative account) to retrieve the user list. It seems like this should be possible as the gmail autocomplete returns domain contacts not listed in the user's contact store. I've looked at the autocomplete Ajax call, but it requires something in the beginning of the string (and no, I don't really want to loop through a-z one by one - that is just way to hacky). For example:
https://mail.google.com/mail/c/u/0/data/contactstore?ac=true&ct=true&gp=true&hl=en&id=domain&max=15&out=js&tok=beginningOfUsersName&type=4
Both versions of the Google contacts API seem to omit domain users unless you have them imported into your own contacts list. I've also looked at querying users in the "Coworkers" system group, all to no avail. I also find it interesting that "add a coworker's calendar" on Google calendar does not provide autocomplete - they use a popup instead.
I'm working on a C# project, but this is a general Google API question, so any pointers in any language would help.
Update
It looks like this is feasible now with admin/directory google api endpoints
see: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/guides/manage-users?authuser=0#retrieve_users_non_admin
Original answer
I was able to work around this issue, so I'll document the workaround, even if it doesn't involve Google. I wrote a program (in C#) to query the internal Active Directory (LDAP) store and pick up all the users from there instead. At that point I could get their email addresses and query Google with it. Not the best method, but it worked for my needs.
The C# was roughly patterned from this powershell script, although I pulled out the computers query and added in the capture of the user's email address: http://www.visualbasicscript.com/List-all-users-or-computers-in-the-default-domain-m35650.aspx
The LDAP property I included to get the proper email address for Google was 'proxyAddresses', although this will not be correct for all environments.
I'm using Google Apps for my domain, and trying to enable access to the calendar on my website.
The problem is that I get This feed is read-only error every time I try to add an event to the calendar. Here's where I post to: Link (dead link)
You're using the basic feed, which according to the documentation is always read-only. Use a feed URL ending in private/full or private/full-noattendees instead.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google, and as part of implementing the calendar side of Google Sync I've had some experience of working with the GData APIs, but anything I write here must be taken to be the views of a private individual rather than as official Google policy etc :)