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Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be uploading file to google drive using cURL bash script in visual studio code using oauth2 and access token. All the steps are shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to open the visual studio code and we need to make a uploadFile.sh file as shown below

uploadfile.sh

curl -X POST -L \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ##ACCESSTOKEN##" \
    -F "metadata={name :'index'};type=application/json;charset=UTF-8" \
    -F "file=@index.zip;type=application/zip" \
    "https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart"

curl -X POST -L \

-H "Authorization: Bearer ##ACCESSTOKEN##" \

-F "metadata={name :'index'};type=application/json;charset=UTF-8" \

-F "file=@index.zip;type=application/zip" \

"https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart"

As you can see in the above bash script we are making a cURL post request to the oauth2 endpoint where we need to add the authorization header inside that we need to provide the access token. So copy paste your access token from the OAuth2 Playground as shown below And then we need to provide the metadata of the uploaded file such as the name of the file and the mimetype. In this case as you can see we are uploading a zip file that’s why we are providing the mimetype to be application/zip and then we are providing the url at the last. So now we need to run this bash script inside the visual studio code as shown below

Get Access Token From OAuth2 Playground

And now we need to select the git bash terminal as shown below in visual studio code

As you can see that after executing the bash file we get a response from the google drive api which includes the id of the uploaded file and as you can see the zip file is successfully uploaded to google drive.