File not found error Google Drive API

Question

I am using the Drive REST API to download a file. I am making a GET request using the file id and I get a file not found exception.

{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "notFound",
    "message": "File not found: xxxxx",
    "locationType": "other",
    "location": "file"
   }
  ],
  "code": 404,
  "message": "File not found: xxxxx"
 }
}

I have also generated the apikey and I am using it in my GET request.The file does exist so I am unsure what I am missing here.

paste the http request/response into your question so we can see what's happening. Ostensibly the message is self explanatory, so I'd suspect the value of the file ID. — pinoyyid, Apr 13 '15 at 14:42
404 is resource not found. Most probably it is something with url is not correct. Try to access the file in browser if you are able to get the file or not. You can also try this in the API explorer : https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/get#try-it — KRR, Apr 13 '15 at 19:17

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '17 at 21:31

Make sure scopes are corrects

var url = oauth2Client.generateAuthUrl({
access_type: 'offline',
scope: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata'
  ]
});

Drive API declares the following scopes. Select which ones you want to grant to APIs Explorer.

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive View and manage the files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata View and manage its own configuration data in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file View and manage Google Drive files and folders that you have opened or created with this app
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata View and manage metadata of files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly View metadata for files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.photos.readonly View the photos, videos and albums in your Google Photos
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly View the files in your Google Drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.scripts Modify your Google Apps Script scripts' behaviour

Sorce: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/drive/v3/drive.files.get

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 16 '15 at 15:35

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This is resolved. I wasn't providing the correct access_token when making the GET request for file metadata. I regenerated the authorization code, access_token and my code is working now.

answered Apr 16 '15 at 15:35

user2676491

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refreshing the token didn't work for me. I can see the files but I can't download them. – Andrew Nov 03 '16 at 21:49

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 04 '21 at 15:57

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In my case, I simply had not given access to the folder to my service account. Simply sharing it via the web interface solved the problem.

What email address to use:

Check the email address of your service account here:

https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts?project=NAME_OF_PROJECT&supportedpurview=project

The email address will look like this:

name-of-service-account@name-of-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

answered Oct 04 '21 at 15:57

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This was my issue too, I didn't see it documented anywhere, thanks! – Kitson Apr 11 '22 at 09:26

Alain O'Dea · Answer 4 · 2022-02-25T12:38:04.560

If you are getting a response like this:

<HttpError 404 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/REDACTED_FILE_ID/copy?alt=json returned "File not found: REDACTED_FILE_ID.". Details: "[{'domain': 'global', 'reason': 'notFound', 'message': 'File not found: REDACTED_FILE_ID.', 'locationType': 'parameter', 'location': 'fileId'}]">

And the fileId points to a file on a Shared Drive, you'll need to include supportsSharedDrives=true in your request parameters.

Google provides more detail on this in their Implement shared drive support article.

Here's a small example with Python for creating a copy:

googledrive = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)

copy_response = googledrive.files().copy(
    fileId=TEMPLATE_SPREADSHEET_ID,
    body={
        "parents": [
            report_folder_id,
        ],
        'title': report_title
    },
    supportsAllDrives=True
).execute()

In order to run that, you'll want to mix it into the example code from the Python Quickstart for Google Drive API.

`supportsAllDrives=True` mattered for me because I was trying to get/update a *shared* file. — Zach Young, Apr 15 '22 at 01:10
@ZachYoung that was exactly my experience. I spent ages spinning my wheels wondering why my requests were failing before realizing I needed that set to True. — Alain O'Dea, Apr 15 '22 at 19:15
Wish I'd found this 2 hours ago, exactly my problem as well! — SimonBarker, Apr 21 '23 at 15:29

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 12 '21 at 14:38

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I would check to see if the file you are trying to retrieve the metadata for is part of a team drive; if it is then you have to set supportsTeamDrives=True in the request.

answered Aug 12 '21 at 14:38

ramo21

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supportsTeamDrives is deprecated in v3, see the supportsAllDrives answer – Niek Aug 25 '22 at 15:13

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 15 '22 at 01:09

I got to this question because I was getting a "File not found" error when using the update method.

I was using this line in Python to execute the method:

files_res.update(fileId=f_id, body={"name": f_name}).execute()

I could list the shared file and its parent fine, but update failed, no matter what the scope with this error:

...
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "notFound",
    "message": "File not found: 1YqV...",
    "locationType": "parameter",
    "location": "fileId"
   }
  ],
  "code": 404,
...

I added the supportsAllDrives=True param to the method and it worked:

files_res.update(fileId=f_id, body={"name": f_name}, supportsAllDrives=True).execute()

score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Oct 04 '21 at 15:51

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In my case, I was using the file client_secret.json that I had created with the gmail address I use all the time, but I was creating the credentials with another e-mail.

edited Oct 04 '21 at 15:51

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answered Oct 16 '17 at 20:39

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File not found error Google Drive API

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What email address to use:

Linked