Which of Drive API v2 or v3 is used for DriveApp.searchFiles()

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:48:25 +0900

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.searchFiles() is used as Drive API v2 yet.

Retrieving Files with Filename Included Special Characters using Google Apps Script

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:40:13 +0900

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. I have been looking for this workaround for a while. Finally, I found this today. By using this method, filename included umlauts can be also retrieved.

DriveAPI on tanaike - Google Apps Script, Gemini API, and Developer Tips

Which of Drive API v2 or v3 is used for DriveApp.searchFiles()

Experiment

Result

Retrieving Files with Filename Included Special Characters using Google Apps Script