ttskch / markdown-pdf-googledrive-ci-sample

A sample of converting Markdown to PDF and deploying to Google Drive with CircleCI 2.0

markdown-pdf-googledrive-ci-sample

A sample of converting Markdown to PDF and deploying to Google Drive with CircleCI 2.0

Mechanism

• Converts Markdown to PDF with markdown-pdf
• Deploys PDF to Google Drive with gdrive
  • Uses Service Account feature to make CircleCI enable to deploy to Google Drive

Preparing

1. Create a Service Account

1. Go to Google API Console
2. Create a new Service Account in some project
3. Download the credential json file

2. Register the credential of Service Account as an envvar on CircleCI

1. Make the credential json "one line" and copy it
2. Go to https://circleci.com/gh/{user}/{project}/edit#env-vars and add the copied credential as a new envvar named GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIAL

3. Allow the Service Account to access the target folder on Google Drive

1. Show the email address of the Service Account and copy it
2. Share the target folder to the Service Account with "edit" access, and copy the folder id
3. Replace {parent_folder_id_here} of .circleci/config.yml with the copied folder id

Result example