Writing to google drive

I need to write to google drive. I can read files from the drive but am having real trouble figuring out how to write to a simple text file. And above all that, I will take some advice from the pros out there...Is this even a good way to do this: I have software that will report usage statistics about itself to a file for viewing remotely. The data is not mission critical, but just nice to be able to review once in a while. Would it be better to have dedicated web server space? I am currently using drive to read files that are mission critical and have had zero problems. Would be nice to keep everything centrally located. Thanks.

Why would you write to Google Drive? Why not simply create a text file and upload it?

Well that is what I meant. Create a file and save to drive. I will need to be able to update the file. So I was thinking: retrieve file if it exists...add new line...save and upload...delete temp file that was downloaded. I need to have the google drive id number though. I am not sure how to find this on a newly uploaded file that was done programatically.

Well again, why retrieve it? Keep a local copy, amend that, upload to overwrite the Google Drive copy.

Ok I see. I have the backend finished that pulls historical data from database. It creates a text file with the appropriate data. I just need to upload it to the drive now. I have zero experience uploading to drive. It appears I need to install google drive api into vb as a first step? Is this correct? Is there no way to do something like a web request to post a file? thanks, Victor.

First stop should have been the online SDK - https://developers.google.com/drive/

Then the next thing you should click is the appropriate link under the "Five minute quick start - Choose your language" header... one of which is .NET...


It will tell you how to:
Step 1: Enable the Drive API
Step 2: Install the Google Client Library
Step 3: Set up the sample
Step 4: Run the sample


-tg

Victor,
I hope you got the help you needed. Now maybe you can help me. I am trying to read from Google drive in my vb.net program. Do you have any example code to do it?