{"id":627,"date":"2015-09-06T23:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/128.199.176.160\/?p=627"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:23:40","slug":"diving-in-google-drive-apis-list-files-and-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbrigade.com\/diving-in-google-drive-apis-list-files-and-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving in Google Drive APIs \u2013 List Files and Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, we are going to actually start playing with Google Drive APIs. Previous parts served as the basis for implementing web apps using Google APIs. In part 3, we will use Google Drive’s file listing functions to list files and folders and display them on a page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assume you have already gone through the authentication and Installation process.\u00a0I have shared my code on GitHub<\/a>, where we are moving toward building a simple web app to list our Google Drive files and perform operations, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following is a simple function that fetches the latest 100 files from the user’s Google account and displays them on the page. We are displaying their file titles and their icons, which represent their file types. For example, it can be a spreadsheet, an image, or a folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n