Google Drive Rest Api Files export limitation - rest

Question

I use rest api "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/fileId/export" "reference page" to get google Doc
I have document size ~ 5 MB when i try to get the file i had the json error :
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "exportSizeLimitExceeded",
"message": "This file is too large to be exported."
}
],
"code": 403,
"message": "This file is too large to be exported."
}
}
Is there any way to fix this error?

Answer 1

Instead of using this export endpoint you can request exportLinks field in the Files: list:
curl \
'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/[FILE_ID]?fields=exportLinks' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer [ACCESS_TOKEN]' \
--header 'Accept: application/json'
That will return something like this (these are links I got for a Google Slides presentation):
{
"exportLinks": {
"application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/presentations/Export?id=[FILE_ID]&exportFormat=odp",
"application/pdf": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/presentations/Export?id=[FILE_ID]&exportFormat=pdf",
"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/presentations/Export?id=[FILE_ID]&exportFormat=pptx",
"text/plain": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/presentations/Export?id=[FILE_ID]&exportFormat=txt"
}
}
And those urls don't have such a hard size limit (I was able to get out ~50mb PDFs)

Answer 2

As stated in the error message there is a limit to how big of a file the API can export. There is really nothing you can do to fix that your going to have to do it with smaller files.
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "exportSizeLimitExceeded",
"message": "This file is too large to be exported."
}
],
"code": 403,
"message": "This file is too large to be exported."
}
}