Files: list

Lists or searches files. Try it now.

This method accepts the q parameter, which is a search query combining one or more search terms. For more information, see the Search for files guide.

Note: This method returns all files by default, including trashed files. If you don't want trashed files to appear in the list, use the trashed=false query parameter to filter trashed files from the results.

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Optional query parameters
`corpora`	`string`	Groupings of files to which the query applies. Supported groupings are: 'user' (files created by, opened by, or shared directly with the user), 'drive' (files in the specified shared drive as indicated by the 'driveId'), 'domain' (files shared to the user's domain), and 'allDrives' (A combination of 'user' and 'drive' for all drives where the user is a member). When able, use 'user' or 'drive', instead of 'allDrives', for efficiency.
`corpus`	`string`	Warning: This item is deprecated. The source of files to list. Deprecated: use 'corpora' instead. Acceptable values are: "`domain`": Files shared to the user's domain. "`user`": Files owned by or shared to the user. If a user has permissions on a Shared Drive, the files inside it won't be retrieved unless the user has created, opened, or shared the file.
`driveId`	`string`	ID of the shared drive to search.
`fields`	`string`	The paths of the fields you want included in the response. If not specified, the response includes a default set of fields specific to this method. For development you can use the special value `*` to return all fields, but you'll achieve greater performance by only selecting the fields you need. For more information, see Return specific fields for a file.
`includeItemsFromAllDrives`	`boolean`	Whether both My Drive and shared drive items should be included in results. (Default: `false`)
`includeLabels`	`string`	A comma-separated list of IDs of labels to include in the `labelInfo` part of the response.
`includePermissionsForView`	`string`	Specifies which additional view's permissions to include in the response. Only 'published' is supported.
`includeTeamDriveItems`	`boolean`	Warning: This item is deprecated. Deprecated use includeItemsFromAllDrives instead. (Default: `false`)
`orderBy`	`string`	A comma-separated list of sort keys. Valid keys are 'createdTime', 'folder', 'modifiedByMeTime', 'modifiedTime', 'name', 'name_natural', 'quotaBytesUsed', 'recency', 'sharedWithMeTime', 'starred', and 'viewedByMeTime'. Each key sorts ascending by default, but may be reversed with the 'desc' modifier. Example usage: ?orderBy=folder,modifiedTime desc,name. Please note that there is a current limitation for users with approximately one million files in which the requested sort order is ignored.
`pageSize`	`integer`	The maximum number of files to return per page. Partial or empty result pages are possible even before the end of the files list has been reached. Acceptable values are `1` to `1000`, inclusive. (Default: `100`)
`pageToken`	`string`	The token for continuing a previous list request on the next page. This should be set to the value of 'nextPageToken' from the previous response.
`q`	`string`	A query for filtering the file results. See the "Search for files" guide for the supported syntax.
`spaces`	`string`	A comma-separated list of spaces to query within the corpora. Supported values are 'drive' and 'appDataFolder'.
`supportsAllDrives`	`boolean`	Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives. (Default: `false`)
`supportsTeamDrives`	`boolean`	Warning: This item is deprecated. Deprecated use supportsAllDrives instead. (Default: `false`)
`teamDriveId`	`string`	Warning: This item is deprecated. Deprecated use driveId instead.

Authorization

This request allows authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.photos.readonly`

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:

{
  "kind": "drive#fileList",
  "nextPageToken": string,
  "incompleteSearch": boolean,
  "files": [
    files Resource
  ]
}

Property name	Value	Description
`kind`	`string`	Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string `"drive#fileList"`.
`nextPageToken`	`string`	The page token for the next page of files. This will be absent if the end of the files list has been reached. If the token is rejected for any reason, it should be discarded, and pagination should be restarted from the first page of results.
`files[]`	`list`	The list of files. If nextPageToken is populated, then this list may be incomplete and an additional page of results should be fetched.
`incompleteSearch`	`boolean`	Whether the search process was incomplete. If true, then some search results may be missing, since all documents were not searched. This may occur when searching multiple drives with the "allDrives" corpora, but all corpora could not be searched. When this happens, it is suggested that clients narrow their query by choosing a different corpus such as "user" or "drive".

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