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Sending a request

Regardless of the method or programming language we use, the HTTP request that Google will receive, looks like this:

  • Using the API key 

GET /drive/v3/files/AbCdEFGhijklmopr-abcde_fghijl-oqQrstuvWxyZ?fields=kind%2C%20id%2C%20name&key=Abcdefghij-KmnloprstuVwxyZ HTTP/1.1
Host: googleapis.com
User-Agent: google-api-nodejs-client/0.7.2 (gzip)
Accept: application/json
Accept-Encoding: gzip
X-Forwarded-For: 190.191.192.193
X-Forwarded-Proto: https

  • Using the OAuth client ID 

GET /drive/v3/files/17qEQsVNm-XWtdGSWy2_p0-pyoLaZS0mq16L1mKX2it4?fields=kind%2C%20id%2C%20name HTTP/1.1
Host: googleapis.com 
User-Agent: google-api-nodejs-client/0.7.2 (gzip)
Accept: application/json
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Authorization: Bearer ya12.RaNdOmStRinG1234RaNdOmStRinG1234RaNdOmStRinG1234-RaNdOmStRinG1234_RaNdOmStRinG1234_RaNdOmStRinG1234
X-Forwarded-For: 190.191.192.193
X-Forwarded-Proto: https

Sending the same request with the Google APIs Node.js Client package will look like this:

js
// The authentication was done using the previous methods
const path_parameters = {
    fileId: 'AbCdEFGhijklmopr-abcde_fghijl-oqQrstuvWxyZ',
    fields: 'kind, id, name',
}
const result = await drive.files.get(path_parameters, options);