DriveAPI

Gists Experiment It has investigated the differences between the documents of “Search for Files” for v2 and v3. The following table shows the comparison of v2 and v3 for “Valid fields for files.list”. The column of DriveApp.searchFiles() means whether the query can be used for DriveApp.searchFiles(). v2 v3 Difference DriveApp.searchFiles() title name different v2: succeed, v3: fail fullText fullText same mimeType mimeType same modifiedDate modifiedTime same lastViewedByMeDate viewedByMeTime different v2: succeed, v3: fail trashed trashed same starred starred same parents parents same owners owners same writers writers same readers readers same sharedWithMe sharedWithMe same properties properties same properties with visibility=‘PRIVATE’ appProperties different v2: succeed, v3: fail visibility visibility same Result As the result, it is considered that DriveApp.

Gists This sample script is for retrieving files with filename included special characters using Google Apps Script. The files are used on Google Drive. The files with filename of special characters cannot be retrieved using DriveApp.getFilesByName(). This workaround solved this. As a query parameter, name contains 'filename with special characters' is used. This contains is very important. name='filename with special characters' cannot retrieve such files. Today, it was found that name contains 'filename with special characters' is the workaround.