GDIndex Deployment Tutorial - A Google Drive Direct Link Indexer with Upload and Download Support
date
Nov 26, 2022
slug
gdIndex
status
Published
tags
GDIndex
Google Drive
summary
type
Newsletter
Introduction
GDIndex is similar to GOIndex. It allows you to deploy a "Google Drive Index" on CloudFlare Workers along with many extra features
By the way, instead of modify from GOIndex, this is a total rewrite
Difference between GOIndex and GDIndex
- Frontend is based on Vue.js
- Image viewer doesn't require opening new page
- Video player support subtitles(Currently only srt is supported)
- Online PDF, EPUB reader
- No directory-level password protection(.password)
- Support Http Basic Auth
- Support multiple drives(personal, team) without changing server's code
Usage
Simple and automatic way
Go https://gdindex-code-builder.maple3142.net/, and follow its instructions.
Manual way
- Install rclone
- Setup your Google Drive: https://rclone.org/drive/
- Run
rclone config file
to find yourrclone.conf
location
- Find
refresh_token
in yourrclone.conf
, androot_folder_id
too(optionally).
- Copy the content of worker/dist/worker.js to CloudFlare Workers.
- Fill
refresh_token
,root_folder_id
and other options on the top of the script.
- Deploy!
Using service accounts
- Create a service account, a corresponding service account key, and get the JSON from the Google Cloud Platform console
- In the props object, replace the
service_account_json
value with the contents of the service account JSON file and setservice_account
totrue
.
- Make sure that the service account in question has access to the folder specified in
root_folder_id
- Deploy