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Suppose I want to write a tool which allows the user to copy a file from Dropbox to Google Drive but I don't want to download the file first to my server and then upload it to the drive. Is there a way where I can insert a file to drive by just providing a URL? I couldn't find anything in the documentation.

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No. Having said that, it isn't necessary to create a file on your server. You can buffer the content in memory.

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What if the file size is huge? If multiple users are using the service for huge files at the same time, the server might run out of memory.
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I suppose you could send the access token to the client via a POST request. You'd have to encrypt it, of course, preferably SSL. Then the client could use the Drive SDK to upload the file directly from itself, completely bypassing your server.

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That's the question, how to upload using URL because I can't find how to do that in Drive API documents.

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