We use the Drive API in a few scripts to get info on all our Shared Drives. Using the “useDomainAdminAccess” parameter in the drives list/get methods, we can get just about all drive details without adding the script account as owner on the target drives. One detail we cannot get using this method is total drive size. It appears there is no native property for drive size when querying details at the drive level. We can get a size param when querying individual files (but we must add the script account as an owner on the drive).
In summary, to get drive size we must add the script account as an owner on the drive. Then iterate through all files within the drive, getting the size param for each and adding it to a global variable which we return as total drive size at the end of the iteration. After this we remove the script account from the drive. This, of course, seems very inefficient for getting a single property.
Do we know if Google plans to include a size param within the drives.list/drives.get api, or add the “useDomainAdminAccess” param to the files.list/files.get api or maybe there is another Google API that can provide this detail with less effort (reporting / gws admin api)? Thanks
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/drives/list https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/files/list
