Google Drive Maintenance

This program will traverse all files and folders in Google Drive and add/remove collaborators to ensure that the list matches a provided list of shared people.

For files owned by a different user, the file can be copied and the old file deleted.

Required Software

• Python 3.4 or above
• Pip package manager

Setup

1. Create new project and enable Google Drive API access from Google Developers Console.
2. Create an OAuth 2.0 API key (any ID and product name works that doesn't have the word "Google" in it), and save as client_id.json
3. Run pip install -R requirements.txt to install dependencies.
4. Run program

# Example: Take ownership of files, disable link sharing, and remove all collaborators:
python gdrivemaintenance.py "WE Bots" -t -l

# Example: Take ownership of files, and set collaborators to just WE Bots:
python gdrivemaintenance.py "WE Bots" -c webots@eng.uwo.ca -t

Usage

usage: gdrivemaintenance.py [-h] [--collaborators email [email ...]]
                            [--take-ownership] [--disable-links] [--what-if]
                            [--version]
                            [folder]

Update sharing and ownership permissions on Google Drive files/folders to
match a predefined list.

positional arguments:
  folder                The folder to recursively start changing sharing and
                        ownership.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --collaborators email [email ...], -c email [email ...]
                        the collaborators that should exist on the
                        files/folders. If blank, removes all collaborators.
  --take-ownership, -t  should files/folders have their ownership changed
  --disable-links, -l   Disable all sharing by links
  --what-if             shows what would happen, without actually executing
                        changes to Google Drive
  --version             show program's version number and exit