Google Drive Upload

A simple GitHub action to upload files to Google Drive (including support for large files).

What does this action do better than others?

• Works with large files.
• Can upload multiple files using a wildcard (my/path/*.txt).
• Lightweight, with a cold start time of less than 15 seconds.
• Works on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
• Backed by a well-known and widely used upload library (RClone).

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Inputs

folder_id

Required: YES.

The ID of the folder you want to upload to.

How to Find the Folder ID

To find the Folder ID, look at the URL of your Google Drive folder. For example:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/xxxx

Here, the Folder ID is the part after /folders/, which in this case is xxxx.

service_account

Required: YES.

A base64-encoded string of the Google Cloud Service Account Key.

1. Access the Google Cloud Credentials page: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials
2. Create a new Service Account.
3. Generate a new JSON key.
4. Convert the key to base64 using:

   cat service_account_key.json | base64 > service_account_key_base64.txt

5. Add the base64 string as a secret in your GitHub account (or organization).

source_path

Required: YES.

The local path to the file(s) to upload.

destination_path

Required: NO.

The destination path in Google Drive.

upload_cutoff

Required: NO.

The cutoff size for switching to chunked uploads. This allows large files to be uploaded without encountering HTTP 429 errors.

Usage example

Simple

- name: Upload to Google Drive
  uses: samuelint/google-drive-upload@v1.0.1
  with:
    folder_id: <your folder id>
    service_account: ${{ secrets.GOOGLE_DRIVE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT }}
    source_path: your_file.txt

Large File

- name: Upload to Google Drive
  uses: samuelint/google-drive-upload@v1.0.1
  with:
    folder_id: <your folder id>
    service_account: ${{ secrets.GOOGLE_DRIVE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT }}
    source_path: your_large_file.zip
    upload_cutoff: 10G # <Optional> Set to avoid HTTP 429 on large file upload

Windows || Linux || Mac

Use 2 steps with artofact upload strategy.

1. Produce the binary (in the OS you want)
2. Upload

name: Release

on:
  release:
    types: [published]

jobs:
  build_my_app:
    name: Build my app For Release
    environment: release
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Build
        run: <some build command>

      - name: Upload Artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: ui-dist
          path: dist/*.zip
          retention-days: 1

  upload_to_gdrive_windows:
    name: Upload to Google Drive
    needs: build_my_app
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Download Artifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: ui-dist
          path: dist

      - name: Upload to Google Drive
        uses: samuelint/google-drive-upload@v1.0.1
        with:
          folder_id: <your folder id>
          service_account: ${{ secrets.GOOGLE_DRIVE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT }}
          source_path: dist/*.zip
          upload_cutoff: 10G # <Optional> Set to avoid HTTP 429 on large file upload