Give your service account a name and a service account ID. In the APIs & Services section, click on Credentials and click on Create credentials to create a service account. If you wish to use the Google Cloud Storage API then you will need to enable Storage API.

If you planning to upload files to Google Drive then you will need to enable Drive API. Give your project a name, change the project ID and click the Create button.Ĭhoose APIs & Services from the left menu and click on Enable APIs and Services to enable the various Google APIs. Go to and create a new Google Cloud project. For this example, we have a folder on your local hard drive containing multiple files and we are required to upload these files to a specific folder in Google Drive. This step by step guide will guide you on how to upload files to Google Drive with a service account using Node.js. I was hoping for some better error messages, since I cannot come up with more ways to investigate.This tutorial explains how you can connect to Google Drive or any other Google API from a service account without user authentication. I have tried many different querystring params to the Google URL, but though most works for the browser and postman downloads, none work with the Cloudflare API.

'errorReasonText': 'There was an unknown error while downloading the video from the source.' 'errorReasonCode': 'ERR_FETCH_ORIGIN_ERROR', After a short while, the status turns into “Failed” and the file JSON says. Now, when I use the Cloudflare “Upload via link” API to copy the file to my Cloudflare Stream account, using the very same URL, the file placeholder is created and it says “Downloading”. If I click the link, the browser will open the save-as dialogue and allow me to download the file (I have tried with an incognito browser and with Postman and both ways it works). The file is shared with “anyone with the URL” and I use Google Drive API to turn the document ID into a direct URL. I am using the Google Drive API and my personal token to create a direct URL for my mp4 video file on a shared Google Drive.

Google drive api upload to shared drive