This small program uses the Google Drive API, Google Drive Activities API, Google Contacts and People API to list information about your files or files shared with you and perform queries given certain parameters that will display information related to your google Drive files, who do you share them with (if the person is in your contacts), activities performed on the files and more.
For it to work, you need to install and configure de gcloud tools. Here are official instructions to install the gcloud cli. You also need python installed, pyenv and virtualenv are highly suggested, so you don't mess your python env. Also, you need to have your own google account on drive with appropiate credentials and permissions to test. Finally, you'll need a google cloud account.
It is suggested that you create a new env for this.
For example, using pyenv, I downloaded version 3.10.7
pyenv install 3.10.7
Then I created a new Virtualenv using this python version I just downloaded with pyenv:
pyenv virtualenv 3.10.7 google-drive-audit-logs-3.10.7
Execute:
python cli.py
Follow the instructions in the CLI.
Open the python terminal:
python
from main import main
main()
You can override the default values with your own. When you first use the solution, It will ask you to authenticate via web browser via the Google Auth site. Login with your credentials, allow the appropiate permissions to read data from your Google Drive, Google Drive Activity and People/Contacts. Some warnings might arise, be sure to read them and understand the implications of the access given.
You can also extend your own classes or functions, by using or modifying the consolidateGDriveInformation() function on main.py.
Having problems to logging after a while?
Sometimes deleting the old pickle solves most of the problems, try deleting the token.pickle file and execute again.