Code for uploading files to google drive with service account using Nodejs

index.js

const createReadStream = require('fs').createReadStream;
const path = require('path');
const process = require('process');
const { google } = require('googleapis');

// Downloaded from while creating credentials of service account
const pkey = require('./pk.json');

const SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file'];

/**
 * Authorize with service account and get jwt client
 *
 */
async function authorize() {
  const jwtClient = new google.auth.JWT(
    pkey.client_email,
    null,
    pkey.private_key,
    SCOPES
  )
  await jwtClient.authorize();
  return jwtClient;
}

/**
 * Create a new file on google drive.
 * @param {OAuth2Client} authClient An authorized OAuth2 client.
 */
async function uploadFile(authClient) {
  const drive = google.drive({ version: 'v3', auth: authClient });

    const file = await drive.files.create({
      media: {
        body: createReadStream('filename')
      },
      fields: 'id',
      requestBody: {
        name: path.basename('filename'),
      },
    });
    console.log(file.data.id)
}

//authorize().then(uploadFile).catch(console.error);

After uploading the files, I could not find the files on my Google Drive. The file ID was printed as stated in the article that led me here.

The file should be there on the google drive. Can you try listing it with this utility that I built

The listing worked and returned all the files I've uploaded with the IDs. But I can't still see the files in my Drive. The storage info on my Drive shows that there are some files. Although I can't see them. It's not much of a problem because I can still get the files using the file ID. Thanks