Google Drive API without Ouath and receive files

Question

We are building a web application that should get all files from a specific folder in our Drive (read only). The problem is that I can't find a way to access our files without using OAuth. Basically I would want to request our files using AJAX and present the contents of them on a page (without the user having to do anything). Is this at all possible and have I missed something?

Whenever I try something without using OAuth I get a global internalError (being related to authorization according to the current documentation).

The experience I'm trying to achieve:

User enters http://domain.com/posts > Get all public files from folder Y > Sort them by date > Show the titles in HTML > User clicks title > User is presented with full contents of the file as HTML.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance! :)

UPDATE: To clarify: I would want to depend on our API key only.

Answer 1

You can do it this way, without using Google Drive API:

1. Make the folder public
2. Copy the folder ID from the URL
3. Append it to https://googledrive.com/host/ e.g. https://googledrive.com/host/0BzEbtMoF6IXbaVN2Qmx1em9qS0k/

You will get a directory index with all files listed and if the (sub)folder contains an index.html file, it will be rendered instead.

To get the JSON or XML file list, use YQL.