How to see files uploaded to google drive via PHP? - php

Question

I have been trying to upload files to my google drive account via service-account using php. I guess the file is successfully uploaded as I can print the file id, file created time and all other information.
Here is my issue: When I login into my google drive account, I cannot see any uploaded file. Where is the file hiding or what should I do?
Here is the code:
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; //api
$serviceAccount = "xxx#xxxxxx.iam.gserviceaccount.com";
$key_file = "mykey-goes-here.p12";
$auth = new Google_Auth_AssertionCredentials(
$serviceAccount,
array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file'),
file_get_contents($key_file)
);
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setAssertionCredentials( $auth );
$service = new Google_Service_Drive($client);
$file = new Google_Service_Drive_DriveFile();
$file->setTitle("my file name");
$file->setDescription('testing desc');
$file->setMimeType('text/plain');
// Provide file name here and path in below
$result = $service->files->insert($file, array(
'data' => file_get_contents("test.txt"),
//'mimeType' => 'text/plain',
'mimeType' => 'application/octet-stream',
'uploadType' => 'media',
//'uploadType' => 'multipart'
));
// Uncomment the following line to print the File ID
printf("File ID: %s\n", $result->id);
echo "<br><br>";
echo '<pre>'; print_r($result); echo'</pre>';

Answer 1

solution:
I discovered that Files uploaded by service account is not available via UI.
To solve the issue, one need to delegate/authorize the application to use the said service account.
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