I'm not a programmer, just a regular user of Google Drive. I want to see if the files are uploaded correctly. I go through a whole process in the OAuth 2.0 Playground that lists all files, shows the MD5 checksums but also lots of information per file. If I upload a new file it's hard to search for it and verify its md5 checksum.
Is there an easier way (through an app, maybe?) to show/list MD5 checksums for the uploaded files? I wonder why the Details pane doesn't have it, only lists the file size in bytes.
edit: NB these instructions have changed slightly for the v3 API
I've figured out a quick way to get the MD5 checksums of the files uploaded and decided to share it here, too. Log into your Google Drive account, then:
Visit: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list
Scroll down to the Try it! section.
Change "Authorize requests using OAuth 2.0" from OFF to ON by clicking on it, then select:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly
and click Authorize.
Choose your account then click Accept.
Fill in the fields field with: (replace items by files with v3 API)
items(md5Checksum,originalFilename)
to only get a list of filenames and MD5 checksums.
Click Execute and you'll open a list with all the files uploaded to Google Drive and their MD5 checksums.
Here are three additional, different ways to list md5 checksums.
- Install Google Skicka, a command line tool for Google Drive and run
skicka ls -ll /
Although the readme file says it's not an official google product it is hosted on google's github account, so I guess it can be trusted.
- There is a plugin that lists all files with their checksums in drive's spreadsheet.
- Here's my python3 script that I've created for myself. It's mostly copied from google's official examples. You'll need to obtain client_secret.json file and place it in the same directory with the script - here's the instruction how to do it.
API instructions
Google Developers - OAuth 2.0 Playground:
- https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
Step 1: Select & authorize APIs:
- Expand "Drive API v3".
- Enable "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly".
- Click "Authorize APIs".
- Click "Allow".
Step 2: Exchange authorization code for tokens:
- Click "Exchange authorization code for tokens".
Step 3: Configure request to API:
- Enter the "Request URI".
- Click "Send the request".
Request URI instructions
All files in folder
Get specific fields of files in a folder:
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?q="folderId"+in+parents&fields=files(md5Checksum,+originalFilename)
//
Replace "folderId" with the folder ID.
You can use &fields=files(*)
to get all of the file's fields.
Single file
Get specific fields of a file:
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/fileId?fields=md5Checksum,+originalFilename
//
Replace "fileId" with the file ID.
You can use &fields=*
to get all of the file's fields.
Parsing the JSON response
- Open a JavaScript console.
- Save the object into a variable.
- Map the object.
- Copy the result.
Code
var response = {
"files": [
{
"md5Checksum": "0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661",
"originalFilename": "a.txt"
},
{
"md5Checksum": "92eb5ffee6ae2fec3ad71c777531578f",
"originalFilename": "b.txt"
}
]
};
var result = response.files.map(function (file) { return (file.md5Checksum + " *" + file.originalFilename); }).join("\r\n");
console.log(result);
copy(result);