Retrieve a list of Google Drive folders using the API

Question

I am trying to get a list of all folder titles/ids in a specific Google Drive folder.

What i have found, that almost resembles what i need is the following: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/children/list

From that page i can type in the start folder and i can also add a mimetype to the query string: mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder' to return only folders.

The problem is that i only get back a set of ID's. That isn't very practical since i can not display them to the user in a dropdown list. Is there any other method to actually get the title of the folders (along with the ID's)?

Something like:

{
  "kind": "drive#childReference",
  "id": string,
  "selfLink": string,
  "childLink": string,
  "title": string      <-----
}

What is the best way to solve this, do one request for every folder (a lot of folders) each time i need to populate the dropdown list?

Vinicius Pinto Vinicius Pinto · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-08T22:44:06

You can use the files#list method with a in parents search parameter, like described here. You can combine that with the mimeType option that you mentioned.

It will return a lot of information, you'll probably want to specify the fields parameter as well to get only what you need.

Retrieve a list of Google Drive folders using the API

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