Is is possible to get a permanent URL to a file uploaded to Google drive?

Question

I can\'t find the answer to this in the API docs or elsewhere. I see in the docs says you can get a downloadURL of a file, but it refers to it as a \'short lived URL\'. What d

Answer 1

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files#webContentLink

downloadUrl is short lived, but webContentLink is a permanent link. It's odd that one is a URL and the other is a "link", but I guess it probably has to do with the additional query params in the strong. Maybe that makes it not just a URL? :)

That property is only available for files that are publically readable, so you may have to use the SDK/API to set the permissions first.