[discuss] Use JupyterLab as Google Drive App

[ktong]

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I would like to configure JupyterLab as Google Drive App. However, this issue seems blocking it. Any workaround or I have to wait the issue gets fixed.

[ian-r-rose]

This would be very cool. You are right that this is currently a blocker. Another problem is that the URL constructed by Google would be based upon the file ID (if I understand the docs correctly). You would need to map the file ID to the correct file for use in the ContentsManager. I don't really know a good workaround at the moment, but I will think about it.

Update: Once we have a way to address jupyterlab/jupyterlab#1075, I think this would be possible with a proxying server. You would have something like an inverse of this function that would construct a path to the file out of the file ID, then send that to the JupyterLab session. It would certainly take some work, though.