This is like running the `ls` Linux command for listing all the files and their details in a particular Google Drive folder. You an even make a tree of files.
Call the listFiles method with the Drive folder name and it will create a list of all files and appends them to a spreadsheet. The direct download links are particularly handy for downloads PDFs and other non Google Docs documents.
Updated to use DriveApp instead of the deprecated DocsList service.
/* Code written by @hubgit https://gist.github.com/hubgit/3755293 Updated since DocsList is deprecated */ function listFilesInFolder(folderName) { var folder = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(folderName).next(); var contents = folder.getFiles(); var file, data, sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); sheet.clear(); sheet.appendRow(["Name", "Date", "Size", "URL", "Download", "Description", "Type"]); for (var i = 0; i < contents.length; i++) { file = contents[i]; if (file.getFileType() == "SPREADSHEET") { continue; } data = [ file.getName(), file.getDateCreated(), file.getSize(), file.getUrl(), "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=no_antivirus&id=" + file.getId(), file.getDescription(), file.getFileType().toString() ]; sheet.appendRow(data); } };