Google: Gets a file's metadata or content by ID For more information, see Search for files and folders (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides search-files) If you provide the URL parameter `alt=media`, then the response includes the file contents in the response body Downloading content with `alt=media` only works if the file is stored in Drive To download Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides use `files export` (https: developers google com workspace drive api reference rest v3 files export) instead For more information, see Download and export files (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-downloads)

Google driveFiles.driveFilesGet: arguments, response, policy and SDK examples.

Operation google.drive_files_get

Provider route: GET /drive/v3/files/{fileId}. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.

Call through Alter

Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/google with npm, or alter-sdk-google with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.

import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";
import { GoogleIntegration } from "@alter-ai/google";

async function execute(input: Parameters<GoogleIntegration["driveFiles"]["driveFilesGet"]>[0]) {
  const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! });
  try {
    const provider = new GoogleIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! });
    const call = await provider.driveFiles.driveFilesGet(input);
    const result = await call.wait();
    return result.bodyJson();
  } finally {
    await app.close();
  }
}

import os
from alter_sdk import App
from alter_sdk_google import GoogleIntegration

async def execute(arguments):
    async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app:
        provider = GoogleIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]})
        call = await provider.drive_files.drive_files_get(arguments)
        result = await call.wait()
        return result.body_json()

Input

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
`path`	object	Required within parent	Additional keys: not allowed
`path.fileId`	string	Required within parent	The ID of the file.
`query`	Model	Optional	Expand Subscribes to changes to a file For more information, see Notifications for resource changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides push) — request body — query

Referenced models: Subscribes to changes to a file For more information, see Notifications for resource changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides push) — request body — query

Response

Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	Model	Root	Expand Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics For more information, see Create and manage files (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides create-file) — response body

Referenced models: Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics For more information, see Create and manage files (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides create-file) — response body

Schemas

8 more schemas are linked from the tables above, on the schema pages.

Subscribes to changes to a file For more information, see Notifications for resource changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides push) — request body — query

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
`fields`	string	Optional	Selector specifying which fields to include in a partial response.
`prettyPrint`	boolean	Optional	Returns response with indentations and line breaks. Default: true
`quotaUser`	string	Optional	Available to use for quota purposes for server-side applications. Can be any arbitrary string assigned to a user, but should not exceed 40 characters.
`acknowledgeAbuse`	boolean	Optional	Whether the user is acknowledging the risk of downloading known malware or other abusive files. This is only applicable when the `alt` parameter is set to `media` and the user is the owner of the file or an organizer of the shared drive in which the file resides. Default: false
`includeLabels`	string	Optional	A comma-separated list of IDs of labels to include in the `labelInfo` part of the response.
`includePermissionsForView`	string	Optional	Specifies which additional view's permissions to include in the response. Only `published` is supported.
`supportsAllDrives`	boolean	Optional	Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives. Default: false
`supportsTeamDrives`	boolean	Optional	Deprecated: Use `supportsAllDrives` instead. Default: false

Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics For more information, see Create and manage files (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides create-file) — response body — client Encryption Details

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Details about the client-side encryption applied to the file.
`decryptionMetadata`	Model	Optional	Expand Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics For more information, see Create and manage files (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides create-file) — response body — client Encryption Details decryption Metadata The metadata used for client-side operations.
`encryptionState`	string	Optional	The encryption state of the file. The values expected here are: - encrypted - unencrypted

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	A restriction for accessing the content of the file.
`ownerRestricted`	boolean	Optional	Whether the content restriction can only be modified or removed by a user who owns the file. For files in shared drives, any user with `organizer` capabilities can modify or remove this content restriction.
`readOnly`	boolean	Optional	Whether the content of the file is read-only. If a file is read-only, a new revision of the file may not be added, comments may not be added or modified, and the title of the file may not be modified.
`reason`	string	Optional	Reason for why the content of the file is restricted. This is only mutable on requests that also set `readOnly=true`.
`restrictingUser`	Model	Optional	Expand Gets information about the user, the user's Drive, and system capabilities. For more information, see [Return user info](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/user-info). Required: The `fields` parameter must be set To return the exact fields you need, see Return specific fields (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides fields-parameter) — response body — user Output only. The user who set the content restriction. Only populated if `readOnly=true`.
`restrictionTime`	string	Optional	The time at which the content restriction was set (formatted RFC 3339 timestamp). Only populated if readOnly is true. Format: date-time
`systemRestricted`	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the content restriction was applied by the system, for example due to an esignature. Users cannot modify or remove system restricted content restrictions.
`type`	string	Optional	Output only. The type of the content restriction. Currently the only possible value is `globalContentRestriction`.

Referenced models: Gets information about the user, the user's Drive, and system capabilities. For more information, see [Return user info](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/user-info). Required: The `fields` parameter must be set To return the exact fields you need, see Return specific fields (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides fields-parameter) — response body — user

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Download restrictions applied to the file.
`effectiveDownloadRestrictionWithContext`	Model	Optional	Expand Deprecated: Use `drives get` instead — response body — restrictions download Restriction Output only. The effective download restriction applied to this file. This considers all restriction settings and DLP rules.
`itemDownloadRestriction`	Model	Optional	Expand Deprecated: Use `drives get` instead — response body — restrictions download Restriction The download restriction of the file applied directly by the owner or organizer. This doesn't take into account shared drive settings or DLP rules.

Referenced models: Deprecated: Use `drives get` instead — response body — restrictions download Restriction

Lists the labels on a file For more information, see List labels on a file (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides list-labels) — response body — labels item

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Representation of label and label fields.
`fields`	object	Optional	A map of the fields on the label, keyed by the field's ID. Additional keys: see wildcard field
`fields.*`	Model	Additional keys	Expand Lists the labels on a file For more information, see List labels on a file (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides list-labels) — response body — labels item fields value
`id`	string	Optional	The ID of the label.
`kind`	string	Optional	This is always drive#label
`revisionId`	string	Optional	The revision ID of the label.

Referenced models: Lists the labels on a file For more information, see List labels on a file (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides list-labels) — response body — labels item fields value

Gets information about the user, the user's Drive, and system capabilities. For more information, see [Return user info](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/user-info). Required: The `fields` parameter must be set To return the exact fields you need, see Return specific fields (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides fields-parameter) — response body — user

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Information about a Drive user.
`displayName`	string	Optional	Output only. A plain text displayable name for this user. Read only: true
`emailAddress`	string	Optional	Output only. The email address of the user. This may not be present in certain contexts if the user has not made their email address visible to the requester. Read only: true
`kind`	string	Optional	Output only. Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string `drive#user`. Default: drive#user Read only: true
`me`	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether this user is the requesting user. Read only: true
`permissionId`	string	Optional	Output only. The user's ID as visible in Permission resources. Read only: true
`photoLink`	string	Optional	Output only. A link to the user's profile photo, if available. Read only: true

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Additional information about the content of the file. These fields are never populated in responses.
`indexableText`	string	Optional	Text to be indexed for the file to improve fullText queries. This is limited to 128 KB in length and may contain HTML elements.
`thumbnail`	object	Optional	A thumbnail for the file. This will only be used if Google Drive cannot generate a standard thumbnail.
`thumbnail.image`	string	Optional	The thumbnail data encoded with URL-safe Base64 ([RFC 4648 section 5](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648#section-5)). Format: byte
`thumbnail.mimeType`	string	Optional	The MIME type of the thumbnail.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	Information about a shortcut file.
`targetId`	string	Optional	The ID of the file that this shortcut points to. Can only be set on `files.create` requests.
`targetMimeType`	string	Optional	Output only. The MIME type of the file that this shortcut points to. The value of this field is a snapshot of the target's MIME type, captured when the shortcut is created.
`targetResourceKey`	string	Optional	Output only. The `resourceKey` for the target file.

Policy, approvals and errors

SDK function policy ID: google.drive_files_get. Catalog operation: drive.files.get. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.

Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.

Required provider scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.meet.readonly", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.photos.readonly", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly"]

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