Google Drive public folder

Pwebi · June 5, 2020, 8:11pm

I read somewhere there currently isn’t a Google Drive public folder option? Is this correct, and is it a limitation of Google Drive or just hasn’t been written for RemoteStorage yet?

(Just initial testing RS now, but super cool framework!)

raucao · June 8, 2020, 1:11pm

Yes, there’s an open issue about implementing it:

github.com/remotestorage/remotestorage.js

Support public files via Google Drive

opened 02:03PM - 27 Oct 17 UTC

galfert

googledrive ready feature

In remoteStorage there is the concept of the public client, that can be used to …store files under the special directory `public/`, which are then publicly accessible, as long as you know the URL of the file. Currently there is no support for sharing files via our Google Drive backend when using the public client yet. Looks like you can [set permissions per file](https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/permissions) to make them publicly accessible, so we should do that when uploading a file under the `public/` dir. Until it's implemented, we should make `getItemURL` throw an error.

It seems like whoever implements this could “just” set a permission bit to public when creating a file in the /public folder within the drive.

The second piece missing for sharing public files would then be this other open issue about getItemUrl():

https://github.com/remotestorage/remotestorage.js/issues/1054