# Google Drive API

> The Google Drive API v3 is a REST API for creating, reading, updating, and deleting files and folders in Google Drive. It supports file metadata operations, content upload/download (simple, multipart, resumable), folder hierarchies, sharing and permissions, revisions, comments, change tracking, and search across a user's Drive. Authorization is OAuth 2.0 via accounts.google.com. Generated by API Evangelist from the catalog; not published by Google.

## APIs
- [Google Drive API v3](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/v3/about-sdk): REST API for files, folders, permissions, revisions, and changes. Base URL https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3.

## Specs
- [OpenAPI 3.1](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-drive/refs/heads/main/openapi/google-drive-openapi.yml): Core files and permissions operations.
- [File JSON Schema](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-drive/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-drive-file-schema.json)
- [Permission JSON Schema](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-drive/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-drive-permission-schema.json)

## Agent access
- [Official MCP server](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/reference/mcp): Remote MCP at https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1 (OAuth 2.0, developer preview) — search_files, get_file_metadata, read_file_content, download_file_content, create_file, copy_file, get_file_permissions, list_recent_files.
- [Agentic access contracts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-drive/refs/heads/main/agentic-access/google-drive-agentic-access.yml)

## Auth
- [About authorization](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/about-auth): OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens; API keys for public files only.
- [OAuth scopes](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/api-specific-auth): drive, drive.file, drive.readonly, drive.metadata(.readonly), drive.appdata, drive.activity, and more.
- [OIDC discovery](https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration)

## Docs
- [API reference](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/v3/reference)
- [Handle errors](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/handle-errors)
- [Usage limits](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/limits)
- [Release notes](https://developers.google.com/workspace/release-notes)

## SDKs
- [Node.js (googleapis)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/googleapis)
- [Python (google-api-python-client)](https://pypi.org/project/google-api-python-client/)
- [Java (google-api-services-drive)](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.google.apis/google-api-services-drive)
- [.NET (Google.Apis.Drive.v3)](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Google.Apis.Drive.v3)
- [Go (drive/v3)](https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/api/drive/v3)
- [Ruby (google-apis-drive_v3)](https://rubygems.org/gems/google-apis-drive_v3)
- [PHP (google/apiclient)](https://packagist.org/packages/google/apiclient)