Google Drive Migration Tool

Transfer the ownership between two different domains by coping folder hierarchy and files.

This tool is EXPERIMENTAL and is NOT an official tool. This tool is released WITHOUT ANY warranty of any kind.

Source	Dest
Google Workspace	Google Account (gmail)
Google Account (gmail)	Google Workspace
Google Workspace A	Google Workspace B

Prerequisites

node +16

Follow Develop on Google Workspace guide to set up an OAuth consent screen and OAuth Credentials

https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/get-started?hl=en_US

1. Create a Google Cloud project

2. Enable Drive API

3. Configure OAuth consent screen

4. Create OAuth credentials

5. Create an .env file from .env_template (cp .env_template .env) and set up env vars.

6. Build the project yarn && yarn build

Instructions

Trash should be empty

1. Share (with role Editor) files and folders to be transferred with the destination account.
2. Create 'migrationSource' folder in the destination Drive account.
3. Put inside all files and folders to be migrated
4. Run the script ./bin/google-drive-migration-tool migrate

First time the script opens the browser to request the permissions to read and write files in Drive. Credentials are stored in a file named token.json. If you want to change the user you need to delete this file.

Copied files are located at 'migrationDest' folder in the root (MyDrive)

Resources

Google Auth reference: https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-nodejs#oauth2 https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/docs/reference/google-auth-library/latest

Inspired on https://www.npmjs.com/package/@google-cloud/local-auth to retrieve the auth token. https://developers.google.com/drive/api/quickstart/nodejs?hl=en_US#authorize_credentials_for_a_desktop_application

Google Drive

Based on https://developers.google.com/drive/api/quickstart/nodejs?hl=en_US Api reference: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference