Browse Everything

Using Google Drive as a storage provider

Register for a Google Cloud Platform account
Access the Google Cloud Platform console
Next to "Google Cloud Platform" branding in the top left, select from the dropdown menu
Click on the "+" button to the far right of the "Search projects and folders" form field
Create a new project with a new name

From the "Dashboard" interface, click "Enable APIs and Services"
Within "Search for APIs & Services" enter for "Google Drive", and select the "Google Drive API"
Click the "Enable" button
From the "Google Drive API" management interface, select "Create credentials"
"Which API are you using?" should contain the value "Google Drive API"
"Where will you be calling the API from?" should contain the value "Web server (e. g. node.js, Tomcat)"
"What data will you be accessing?" should contain "User data"
Select "What credentials do I need?"

Provide the "name" for your Figgy
Select "Create client ID"
Provide the e-mail address for the repository administrator
Provide the product name for users granting your Figgy access to Google Drive accounts
Provide the authorized redirect URIs
- http://localhost:3000/browse/connect will be sufficient for testing using an instance on the localhost
- Otherwise, please offer some URI of the structure http://[YOUR_FIGGY_URL]/browse/connect
You do not need to download the credentials

From the "Credentials" interface, select the "Edit OAuth client" button (it features a pencil icon to the right of the name of your Figgy)
Copy the "Client ID" and "Client secret" into the config/browse_everything_providers.yml configuration file
- Should your client secret every be compromised, please note that one can "Reset Secret" at the top of this interface

After restarting your instance of Figgy, one should be able to upload files from Google Drive within the File Manager for resources in the repository