Uploaded a File succesfully on google drive using Python with PyDrive but File is damaged

Question

I am trying to upload a file from my computer to google drive using Python(Pydrive), it gets uploaded succesfully but gets damaged and its size becomes 0kb.

Here is my code:

drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)
import glob, os
with open('C:\\Users\\New\\Pictures\\Screenshots\\older\\Screenshot.png', 'r') as file:
          fn = os.path.basename(file.name)
          file_drive = drive.CreateFile({"title": fn })
file_drive.Upload()
print('The file: ' + fn + ' has been uploaded')
print('Successful')

What I am doing wrong? I have done the Authentication part and it's Authenticated successfully.

I have checked answers related to this but I didn't get the answer I am looking for.

Answer 1

• You want to upload a file of C:\\Users\\New\\Pictures\\Screenshots\\older\\Screenshot.png' to Google Drive using pydrive with python.
• You have already been able to use Drive API.

If my understanding is correct, how about this modification?

Modification point:

• In your script, the file content is not given.

Modified script:

Please modify your script as follows.

From:

with open('C:\\Users\\New\\Pictures\\Screenshots\\older\\Screenshot.png', 'r') as file:
          fn = os.path.basename(file.name)
          file_drive = drive.CreateFile({"title": fn })
file_drive.Upload()

To:

f = 'C:\\Users\\New\\Pictures\\Screenshots\\older\\Screenshot.png'  # Added
with open(f, 'r') as file:  # Modified
          fn = os.path.basename(file.name)
          file_drive = drive.CreateFile({"title": fn })
file_drive.SetContentFile(f)  # Added
file_drive.Upload()

References:

• Upload and update file content
• SetContentFile(filename)

If this was not the direction you want, I apologize.