metalsmith-google-drive

metalsmith to scrape files from google drive

Highlights:

• requests token authorisation via CLI
• caches token and files, only requests changed files
• no tests yet

See the annotated source or github repo

npm i --save github:leviwheatcroft/metalsmith-google-drive

Follow this guide, go through A to G under Step 1, the downloaded file will contain the credentials you need to pass into this plugin. In these examples I'm using config to store them.

Once you've authed, the token will be printed to console, you can store this token in a config file if you wish, but be aware that it's sensitive so put it somewhere which isn't tracked.

Metalsmith('src')
.use(googleDrive({
  auth: config.get('driveAuth'),
  src: '0B1QpLgu4qk48R1hDBi1wWFkyV2s',
  dest: 'articles'
}))
.build( ... )

• src {String} being the drive id of the parent folder you want to scrape
• dest {String} the path under which you want to place the scraped files in metalsmith
• auth {Object} containing client_id, client_secret and redirect_uris
• cache {Boolean} (default: true) store files in cache

• to get a google drive folder id just view it in your browser and copy the id from the url
• files in subfolders on google drive will be included, but their containing folders will not be included in the path in metalsmith. In otherwords, this plugin does a recursive search but flattens the result.
• files scraped from drive will not be stored in your file system, they're added directly to metalsmith files structure during build.

Levi Wheatcroft levi@wht.cr

Contributions welcome; Please submit all pull requests against the master branch.

• MIT : http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT