Google Docs Batch Upload

A tool for batch uploading documents to a Google Docs account with recursive directory traversing. The tool supports PDF upload.

Please note, uploading any types of files without conversion is available only for Google Apps for Business accounts due to API restrictions.

To run the application you need Java 1.6 (JRE 6) or greater installed: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/

 Usage: java -jar google-docs-upload.jar
 Usage: java -jar google-docs-upload.jar <path> --recursive
 Usage: java -jar google-docs-upload.jar <path> --username <username> --password <password>
 Usage: java -jar google-docs-upload.jar <path> --auth-sub <token>
     [--username <username>]       Username for a Google account.
     [--password <password>]       Password for a Google account.
     [--recursive]                 Recursively upload all subfolders.
     [--remote-folder <path>]      The remote folder path to upload the documents separated by '/'.
     [--without-conversion]        Do not convert documents into the Google Docs format (unsupported files are not converted by default).
     [--without-folders]           Do not recreate folder structure in Google Docs.
     [--hide-all]                  Hide all documents after uploading.
     [--add-all]                   Upload all documents even if there are already documents with the same names.		
     [--skip-all]                  Skip all documents if there there are already documents with the same names.	
     [--replace-all]               Replace all documents in Google Docs, which have the same names as the uploaded.	
     [--disable-retries]           Disable auto-retries in the cases of failed upload.	
     [--auth-sub <token>]          AuthSub token.
     [--auth-protocol <protocol>]  The protocol to use with authentication.
     [--auth-host <host:port>]     The host of the auth server to use.
     [--protocol <protocol>]       The protocol to use with the HTTP requests.
     [--host <host:port>]          Where is the feed (default = docs.google.com)

You can also use short versions of the options, such as -u (--username), -p (--password), -rf (--remote-folder), etc.

Setup for easy launch in Windows

1. Create a new folder, let's say C:\gdu\

2. Download the latest jar file and copy it into the created folder

3. Create in C:\gdu\ an empty file called gdu.cmd

4. Open the file gdu.cmd (for example, using Notepad) and paste into it the following content:

java -jar C:\gdu\google-docs-upload-<version>.jar %1 --recursive -u <username> %*
pause

5. Replace <version> with the actual version of the tool and <username> with your Google account username

6. Run the program by double-clicking on gdu.cmd

7. (Optional) Add the install path (C:\gdu\) to the Windows PATH variable

8. (Optional) Now you can run the tool from Windows command line: gdu <path> [<options>]

Let's say you have a folder C:\documents\ with documents that you often update with new ones. In order to simplify the regular upload of new documents to Google Docs, you can do the following (please note, to make these steps work, first you have to add the install path C:\gdu\ to the PATH variable):

1. Create in C:\Documents\ an empty file upload.cmd

2. Copy into C:\Documents\upload.cmd the content:

gdu.cmd ./ -rf /Documents -r -sa

3. To run the upload you just need to double-click on upload.cmd and supply your username and password

4. Or you can schedule regular auto execution of the script using, for example, Windows Task Scheduler

Proxy support

To enable proxy support, run the program with the following standard Java properties specified:

java -DProxyHost=<host> -DProxyPort=<port> -jar google-docs-upload.jar

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Changelog

Version 1.4.7 (24/07/2011)
Fixed a bug causing changes of folder permissions

Version 1.4.6 (12/04/2011)
Fixed duplicate detection for files uploaded without conversion

Version 1.4.5 (07/04/2011)
Fixed a bug: Fixed a bug: another problem with mime types, this time with convertable documents

Version 1.4.4 (06/04/2011)
Fixed a bug: some files could not be uploaded due to wrong mime types

Version 1.4.3 (21/03/2011)
The tool has been fixed and tested for working properly with Google Apps for Business accounts. Thanks to http://digiprove.com/ for providing a Business account for testing purposes
Fixed a bug caused by empty file names
The dependencies have been updated to new versions

Version 1.4.2 (18/01/2011)
Bug fixes

Version 1.4.1 (29/12/2010)
Fixed a bug with uploading without conversion

Version 1.4 (23/12/2010)
Added the --without-conversion option for support of uploading files of any types for Business accounts. Thanks to Sam Cooley for contributing a patch
Added the --hide-all option for auto-hiding files after uploading
Added output of document IDs
Removed the enforcement of the size limitations
Documents are now replaced properly with keeping the same resource ID and without loosing the metadata, such as sharing settings
Bug fixes

Version 1.3.2 (01/03/2010)
Fixed a bug: NullPointerException when uploading documents without specification of the remote folder

Version 1.3.1 (02/01/2010)
Fixed skip-all option for folders with many documents
Fixed handling of non-alphabetical symbols in folder names
Fixed the file counter in the progress indicator

Version 1.3 (27/12/2009)
Google Docs size limits are enforced
Added an option to specify the remote folder to upload documents
Added an option to disable auto-retries
Fixed the bug in uploading a single file
Added the upload progress indicator

Version 1.2 (06/09/2009)
Added the ability to replicate the folder structure in Google Docs

Version 1.1 (03/09/2009)
Bug fixes