Get Google drive video embed code using api

Hello everyone,

I was working on a project where i need to display a video specifically from my google drive on a webpage. I don't want to manually select the video and copy its embed code, is there a way we can obtain the embed code for a video using google api (PHP preferred) ?

So that i can use this code within an iframe and display the video.

Please also suggest if there are other ways.

Thanks in advance,

You can start with Google Drive API https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/quickstart/php and this segment of code i hope can help you.

<?php 
// New Google Client, see all settings at link in description
$client = new Google_Client();

// New Google Drive Service
$service = new Google_Service_Drive($client);

// Params with filter of MIME type for search only videos mp4 (you can change this)
$optParams = [
  'q' => "mimeType='video/mp4'",
  'pageSize' => 10,
  'fields' => 'nextPageToken, files(id, name, webViewLink)'
]; 

// Get files from our request
$files = $service->files->listFiles($optParams);

// Print an iframe for each video
foreach($files->files as $file){
    // Now I need to make a little detail about the next lines of code so look at [Info]
    $src = str_replace('/view', '/preview', $file->webViewLink);
    echo '<iframe width="500" height="200" target="_parent" src="'. $src .'"></iframe>'
}
?>

[Info]

The objects returned from $service->files->listFiles($optParams) are Google_Service_Drive_DriveFile objects and each of these have a series of properties. From v3 of Google API a properties called embedLink was removed and there isn't an alternative for this property from v2(Migrate to Google Drive API v3) so as you seen in my code i use webViewLink property that return a URL to a view of file like this:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/123456789/view

But if you use this URL inside an <iframe> the browser notice to you an error:

Refused to display 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/123456789/view' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'sameorigin'.`

I'm not holding you too much on this issue and there are a lot of question about this. So we need to request a preview of file and not a view an i do that with

str_replace('/view', '/preview', $file->webViewLink);

on the URL returned by the request. Now you can use this URL in a <iframe>