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Development will be paused for a few weeks, I will resume the project as soon as possible.

What is this?

next-gdrive-index is an indexer for Google Drive, it's a simple project that I made to index my files in Google Drive.
It's aim to simplify the process of sharing files using Google Drive, and also implements some features that I think is useful for sharing files.

This project are HEAVILY INSPIRED by onedrive-vercel-index by SpencerWooo.

Why I made this?

when I compare the price between these two services, Google Drive still cheaper than Onedrive.
For 100GB plan, Google Drive is IDR 269.000 / ~$18 USD annually, and Onedrive is IDR 319.000 / ~$21 USD annually.
For free plan, Google Drive offering 15GB of storage, and Onedrive offering 5GB of storage.

I know there are a lot of people selling cheap edu account for Google Drive and Onedrive, but most of the time those account doesn't last long, especially Google Drive account. So I want to do it legit without buying cheap edu account or anything similar this time.

Features

• Private Index, lock the whole index site with password.
• Folder and file protection, you can protect your folder and files with password.
• Readme file, you can add readme file for your folder, so you can add some description for your folder.
• File preview, you can preview some file types directly from the browser, without downloading it first.
  • Image preview
  • Video preview
  • Audio preview
  • Markdown preview
  • PDF preview
  • Document preview (docx, pptx, xlsx)
  • Code preview
  • Text preview
  • Manga preview (cbz)
• File search, you can search for files and folders easily.
• Direct download, you can download files directly from index site without opening Google Drive.
• Raw file link, you can use the raw file link for hosting your web project assets or comments on forum.

File Security

All files fetched from Google Drive NEED TO BE SHARED with Anyone with the link can view permission.
This is because Google Drive API can only access files that are shared with Anyone with the link can view permission.

But, every files id and webContentLink are encrypted with AES-256-CBC using your own key, so no one can access your files without the key.
Except, if the files are larger than the fileSizeLimit (default: 4MB for vercel), then the download will be redirected to the raw file link.

Known Issue

File size limit

File size limit causing some files can't be previewed, and the download will be redirected to the raw file link.

Long Response Time

The flow of the project are:

• Validate the path is valid or not. (Only applied for /...[path])
• Fetch the password, readme, and files from Google Drive.
• Show to the user.

So, if you have a lot of files in your Google Drive, it might take a long time to fetch all the files.
To improve the response time, I added a cache to the response, so the next time you access the same path, it will be faster.

ATM, it roughly take around 600 - 2 seconds to fetch all the data on my Google Drive.

No support for Google Shared Drive

I don't have Google Shared Drive, so I can't test it and implement it.

No support for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

For now, I don't have any plan to implement this, because I think it's not necessary.
All Google Drive files like Docs, Sheets, and Slides are hidden from the list.