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React.js Google Drive & Docs File Picker API Example to Upload & View Files in Browser Using JSX
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I'll show you a reactjs
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library which allows you to integrate
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the Google drive file picker uh API
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where you can able to read files from
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your Google drive or also directly
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upload files to your Google Drive so
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there is a button out there I'm running
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this react CHS application locally we
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have a simple button which opens the
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file picker API which will do the
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authentication first of all
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or to authentication so here you need to
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select your Google account then Grant
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the permission for your Google Drive you
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will see that it is allowing you the
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permission simply click continue so it
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will grant the permission and it will
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now fetch all the files which are stored
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all the
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images and you can see that
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so you also have the second option as
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well to actually directly upload files
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so you simply select upload and then you
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simply select whichever file that you
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want to upload let's suppose I select a
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image file this JPG file that I'm
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uploading right here you can add
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multiple files as well so let's suppose
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I have two images right here using this
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file picker API simply say upload you
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will
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see you can even upload files as well
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so but we can see the files right here
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if you see if you individually select
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any file you will see the file will be
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returned to you inside an
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object so now I'll be showing you how to
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integrate this so there is a specific
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module inside rches which is this one
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react Google Drive picker this is
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actually the module the command is very
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simple to actually install this module
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so once you install this let me show
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you
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uh just create a simple functional
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component so now we first of all need to
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import this module so for importing it
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we use the simple import
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statement use Drive picker and it will
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be coming from this package so just
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using this import line we simply import
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the module and then we will have a
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simple button in the
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jsx and this button will simply say that
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open picker and we will basically bind
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an onclick listener to this so on
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click this function will be handled open
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picker
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so now we just need to Define this
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function so as soon as we click this
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button we just need to Define this
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function so right here
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we will declare a variable here first of
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all open picker
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and or
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response and this will be using the use
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Drive picker
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and this is just a function
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so we declared this variable this is a
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hook and right inside this function we
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actually call this function open
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figure and this actually takes some
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options so here you need to specify the
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client ID and then you also need to
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specify the developer key and then the
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scope so this scope basically grants all
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the permission we can read upload
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download delete
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everything and then The View ID which is
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Google
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Docs local which is
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English and then if you also want to
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upload you can set this option to True
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show upload folders show upload
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files can see that so you can set all
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these options
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and we also have the option to
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actually multi- select which allows you
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to select multiple files and then we
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also have a call back function which
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will execute once you actually select
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the
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data so inside this function we can
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actually have a action so if you
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basically uh just click the
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cancel
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button this call Action will be
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cancelled and we just console log all
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the data that you selected now here in
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this we just need to replace your client
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ID and the API key so these two
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information you will get inside your
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Google Cloud console so just create a
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simple account right here I've have
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already created one so then you need to
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go to library
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section and
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uh here you need to search for the API
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that we are working with which
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is
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so just search here for Google
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Drive you will see this AP will occur
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Google Drive API so just you need to
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enable this API I've already enabled
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this simply enable that after that just
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create a go to credentials and
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just I've already created this API key
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simply
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paste and my reactjs application is
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running on port
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number if you see the application is
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running by default it's running on Local
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Host
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5173 so this is your homepage simply
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copy this URL and uh go to this option o
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or client
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ID application type will be web
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application and authorize JavaScript
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origin simply paste this
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URL just don't
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have also have this http
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so you just need to add both the flavors
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right here including the port number
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also the HTTP Local Host and then just
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copy this URL in the authorized redirect
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URI simply
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paste and then just click create it will
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give you your client ID so I already
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have the created this client ID so what
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I will do I will simply copy
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this so after you do this uh
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just login with your Google account so
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let me
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open click this button and as soon as
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you click it you will be redirected to
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the screen right here where you will
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select your
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account just make sure
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let me create it one second I think I
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already created one that's
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why just do this process once again uh
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you set your application type to be web
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app application
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authorize just copy
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this
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paste and now it will give you this
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client ID you just need this one and
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just paste this client ID
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so as soon as you do this just open your
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application Local Host 5173 and just
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click this button and now you will
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simply select your account just gr the
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permissions and automatically it will
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log you in and you will see that you
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have the screen where you can upload
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directly your files as
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well and now you can see your files have
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been successfully uploaded so in this
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way guys you can integrate very easily
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the Google drive file picker API inside
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your reactions application to upload
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download files using this file picker
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