Is is possible to get a permanent URL to a file uploaded to Google drive?
google-drive-api
Solution
Yes, you can get a permalink to any file hosted on Google Drive in a public folder. Just note the folderID: and paste it to the following URL: `http://googledrive.com/host/<folderID>/<filename>` or you can create a short custom alias using G Drives: `http://gdriv.es/<alias>/<filename>`
Problem
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 does that mean? I need to upload images and get a permanent URL of that image that is the direct URL than can be embedded into emails or web docs etc. Is that possible? Thanks