drive_mime_type function

Lookup MIME type

This is a helper to determine which MIME type should be used for a file. Three types of input are acceptable:

• Native Google Drive file types. Important examples:

  • "document" for Google Docs
  • "folder" for folders
  • "presentation" for Google Slides
  • "spreadsheet" for Google Sheets

• File extensions, such as "pdf", "csv", etc.

• MIME types accepted by Google Drive (these are simply passed through).

drive_mime_type(type = NULL)

Arguments

• type: Character. Google Drive file type, file extension, or MIME type. Pass the sentinel expose() if you want to get the full table used for validation and lookup, i.e. all MIME types known to be relevant to the Drive API.

Returns

Character. MIME type.

Examples

## get the mime type for Google Spreadsheets
drive_mime_type("spreadsheet")

## get the mime type for jpegs
drive_mime_type("jpeg")

## it's vectorized
drive_mime_type(c("presentation", "pdf", "image/gif"))

## see the internal tibble of MIME types known to the Drive API
drive_mime_type(expose())