Question

I’m trying to use the Google Drive API in Javascript to get a list of files that the signed in user can edit. How do I do this?

I’ve tried using a files/list request to get the list of files which gets a list of all files by default:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list

The request also accepts search parameters:
https://developers.google.com/drive/search-parameters

e.g. to search for files writeable by the user “[e-mail]” use ‘[e-mail]’ in writers

I need to be able to say ‘ [current user’s email address] in writers’ or something similar for this to work though and I can’t see any way to programmatically get the current user’s email address.

Answer 1

Should be able to do that with a query like:

'[e-mail]' in owners or '[e-mail]' in writers

That’ll return files the current user either owns or it where it was shared with them with edit permissions.