Normal Google Drive or OneDrive possible to integrate? (private accounts, not business/azure/google cloud)

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Hey everyone!

I was thrilled to use n8n, but was bummed, that something as simple as a normal Google Drive Client (private User, non business) or OneDrive (not Sharepoint, Business, Azure) was not supported in any way.

Is there a workaround to accessing normal customer / private person accounts?

Thank you very much for your help :slight_smile:

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Hey @Jano1 , what makes you think the private user accounts are not supported? They are. Works fine for me.

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Hi there :)! Thank you for replying! I saw there was no easy way of using Google Drive (only via Google Cloud Platform), which way some steps above my league (I am an absolute beginner). Also the OneDrive implementation was similar, it would be hard for me to integrate everything.

For google drive I was used to that, but for OneDrive for example, I was able to just log in with typical credentials and use them right away using Make.com (no OAuth 2.0 or similar) last time I used it (some while ago).

Despite using the documentation, ChatGPT and trying for about 2 hours I was unable to do it, but of course that comes back to my knowledge and skills, which are limited :confused:

I even managed to get Google Drive to a point where I could see “something”, but just not all my data.

I was just wondering, if there was a workaround to a complicated implementation like that, by, for example, using a third party tool or similar that can integrate right away using the normal Google Drive (Google Account) credentials, which I am not sure if such a thing exists - of even can exist given Googles policies. :slight_smile:

Thank you so much for taking your time to respond :)!

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Hey @Jano1 , I believe you are self-hosting n8n. There is a difference between connecting to the external services from a local environment and from the n8n Cloud workspace. Some integration come already pre-configured for the n8n app on the Cloud. When it comes to self-hosted solution you might have to do the heavy-lifting yourself.

Make.com does not offer a self-hosted solution. That is why you might not have encountered the issues you do now.