How to create a Google Forms in a specific Google Drive folder using Python?

Question

I can't manage to find a way to create a Google Forms in a specific directory.

All the forms I create are located at the top level of my Google Drive.

form = {
    "info": {
        "title": "My new form"
    },
}
# Prints the details of the sample form
result = form_service.forms().create(body=form).execute()
print(result)

I have tried to add the parents keyword but it doesn't work as expected (it is not listed in the Google Forms API documentation)

Is there a way to do that?

I can only think of using the form id created at the top level and assign a new parent target folder id.

I searched the documentation but I couldn't find a way to specify the parent folder at form creation.

GerardoRZ · Accepted Answer · 2024-07-06 20:28:33Z

0

The forms python library do not have a way to create the form in specific folder

YOu can use the drive API to set the folder https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/folder#create-file

And then create the form or any other file

try:
    # create drive api client
    service = build("drive", "v3", credentials=creds)

    file_metadata = {"name": "photo.jpg", **"parents": [folder_id]**} #the parents is the folder Id where you want to create the file
    media = MediaFileUpload(
        "download.jpeg", mimetype="image/jpeg", resumable=True
    )
    # pylint: disable=maybe-no-member
    file = (
        service.files()
        .create(body=file_metadata, media_body=media, fields="id")
        .execute()
    )
    print(f'File ID: "{file.get("id")}".')
    return file.get("id")

edited Jul 6, 2024 at 20:28

answered Jul 5, 2024 at 18:02

GerardoRZ

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