Django Google Drive Storage

How it works

Django Google Drive Storage is an implementation of Django Storage that uses Google Drive ad backend.

Please notice that with this implementation you could not save or load data from a user's Drive. You can use only a Drive dedicated to a Google Project. This means that:

• this Storage interacts with Google Drive as a Google Project, not a Google User.
• your project can use Google Drive only thru Google Drive SDK. Because no user is associated with this Drive, you cannot use Google Drive User Interface.
• this Storage authenticates with Google using public private keys. See prerequisites for how to obtain it.

Having stated that, with this storage you gain a 25GB space hosted on Google Server where to store your data using Django models.

Prerequisites

To use this storage, you have to:

• set up a project and application in the Google Developers Console
• obtain the key for your Google Project associated with Google Drive service

Installation

This storage is hosted on PyPI. It can be easily installed thru pip:

pip install django-googledrive-storage

Setup

Once installed, there are some few steps to configure the storage:

• add the module gdstorage to your installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'gdstorage'
)

• create a section in your setting.py that contains the configuration for this storage:

#
# Google Drive Storage Settings
#

GOOGLE_DRIVE_STORAGE = {
    'service_account':{
        'email': <project email associated by Google>,
        'private_key_file_path': <p12 certificate file path, relative to your project, obtained by Google>
    }
}

The email should be the email Google assigned to your project, while the private_key_file_path must be the p12 file obtained by Google.

• instantiate the storage on you models.py file before using into the models:

from gdstorage.storage import GoogleDriveStorage

# Define Google Drive Storage
gd_storage = GoogleDriveStorage()

Use

Once configured you could use it as any storage for Django:

class Map(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField( primary_key=True)
    map_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    map_data = models.FileField(upload_to='/maps', storage=gd_storage)