
You should also see activity by any of your collaborators. You should then see a long list of activities related to Google Drive, such as when you opened, renamed, edited, moved, or deleted files. I spent a lot of time trying to get around this (inc building a google drive app with the api), I'm afraid it looks like there's no way round it.ĭon't use google drive to serve up video in html unless you know all your users will be authenticated with google. To do that, pick My Drive on the Google Drive sidebar, select the Info icon to the top-right of the Google Drive web app, and switch to the Activity tab. I've done a bit more reading and I'm afraid the video will only play on browsers that are logged into a google account. That said, I'd be interested to see some proper documentation from google on it - I want to use this in production, but feel like I need to do more reading to be confident.

Ī lot of people seem to be suggesting creating an API app in order to get the file ID, but it looks like you can guess it pretty easy. Now I've got a video working with the following html. I've cut what I guessed to be the file ID from the URL - 0B4BsAbG4atWHQzVfLUU3UnhhZTAĪnd added it to metal7's url to create a src attribute for a source tag Step5 : Now go to Primary account folder and delete. Step4 : Open your secondary Gmail account, select the shared folder and copy all the files with the extension. Step3 : Share that particular holder to your secondary Gmail account. Google then gives me a link to share that looks like Step2 : Open your Google drive account (primary) where all your file exists. A short-lived link to the file's thumbnail, if available. A static, unauthenticated link to the file's icon. A link for opening the file in a relevant Google editor or viewer in a browser. This is only available for files with binary content in Google Drive.

In google drive I placed the video file in a publicly shared folder then rightclick the file and select share > share. A link for downloading the content of the file in a browser. OK, I've just managed to get this working as follows.
