Add media from Google Drive

Google Drive Integration

CoPost lets you connect your Google Drive as an integration, enabling you to select files from your Drive account and use them to create social media posts.

This guide shows you how to connect your Google Drive account directly from Media Manager. You can also connect your account from the Bulk Post Creator area or in account settings

Once connected, you can use Google Drive to import media anywhere within CoPost.

Let's go

Connecting your account

Head over to Media Manager, click Add Media and then choose Select from Google Drive.

You will be directed to Google where you can select the account to use.

Confirm that you trust us enough to connect your account.

We request the lowest access to your Drive account, meaning that CoPost can only ever see and import files that you select

Your Google Drive account is now connected.

Allowing CoPost to preview thumbnails (Optional)

Because of Google's security measures, we cannot display the thumbnail for any media by default.

This means that when you use the Google Drive picker, you can select files but you cannot see the preview, to enable use to show you the preview for each file in your Drive, you will need to enable the Share URL feature for any folder that you wish to use.

You do not need to do this, but it helps visualizing your content when importing media

In Google Drive, right click on the folder you want to use within CoPost, in the share section, click Share

Select Anyone with the link on the left side
Select Viewer on the right side
Click Done

Fetching media from Google Drive

Now that your Drive account is connected, you can start importing media.

Creating Folders

Create a new folder if you like by clicking on the New Folder icon and giving it a name

Whichever folder is selected, that is where new media will be imported

Choose Where to Import Media

Select the folder that you want to import your media into.
Click Add Media and choose Select from Google Drive

The Drive Picker

Select a single file or multiselect your files within the picker and click Select.

Your media will now start to import into CoPost

When the import is done, it will be visible in Media Manager and you can start adding your media to your social posts.

Removing Google Drive Integration

To remove your Google Drive integration:

Go to integration settings
Click on the Disconnect button

This action will remove CoPost's ability to open Drive Picker, but to remove CoPost completely, you may need to remove CoPost from your connected app settings within your Google Drive account

And that's it for this guide. Thank you for reading.

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