Writing to google drive

[victorb17]

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.

[dunfiddlin]

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

[victorb17]

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.

[dunfiddlin]

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

[victorb17]

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.

[techgnome]

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

[bbradb]

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?