GDRIVE Uploader

A small Python utility to upload a local file to Google Drive. The script checks whether the target folder exists and creates it if needed, then uploads or overwrites the specified file.

Features

• Upload a local file to a Google Drive folder
• Automatically create the target folder if it does not exist
• Reuse existing file on Drive and overwrite it if found
• Load upload settings from config.json

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• PyDrive
• Google Drive API credentials

Setup

1. Install dependencies:

pip install pydrive

2. Create a Google API project and enable the Google Drive API.
3. Download the OAuth client secrets file and save it as client_secrets.json in the repository root.
4. Create credentials.json using PyDrive authentication or copy it from an existing authenticated session.
5. Copy config.example.json to config.json and update the values:

{
  "remote_file_name": "desired_remote_file_name.txt",
  "remote_folder_name": "desired_remote_folder_name",
  "local_file_name": "local_file_to_be_loaded.txt"
}

Usage

Run the uploader script from the repository root:

python Gdrive_uploader.py

Notes

• Do not commit client_secrets.json, credentials.json, or config.json to a public repository.
• The script currently expects credentials.json to exist before running.
• If multiple files or folders have the same name on Drive, the script uses the first match found.