multer-gdrive

multer storage engine for google drive

Installation

npm install --save multer-gdrive

Usage

var google = require('googleapis')
var express = require('express')
var multer = require('multer')
var multerGdrive = require('multer-gdrive')
 
var app = express()
var jwtClient = new google.auth.JWT({/*...*/});
 
var upload = multer({
  storage: multerGdrive(jwtClient)
})
 
app.post('/upload', upload.array('photos', 3), function(req, res, next) {
  res.send('Successfully uploaded ' + req.files.length + ' files!')
})

File information

multer-gdrive appends to the uploaded file the following information

Key	Description
googleId	file id on google drive

Preprocessing

the constuctor for multer-gdrive accepts an optional second parameter that receives in input the file stream and returns a Promise resolving to the processed stream/buffer to be sent to google drive