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Hosting MP3 files on Google Drive + HTML5 Audio Player

5. February 2022
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What Google Drive Sharing offers us!

I am doing a Podcast on portalZINE.TV since last year and always host a backup of the MP3 episodes on Google Drive.

The link that you create, when enabling file sharing on Google Drive, can not be used to actually embed it on your website.

The link looks something like that:

To actually use it directly, we need to get the ID. Sure, you  could just extract the ID, but often we just want to copy and paste. The sharing link is also your actual reference to the original file, which I store together with the podcast.

Apply a simple RegEX

We use a simple Regex to extract the ID:

PHP

JAVASCRIPT

Just use it!

This ID can than be used to embed the file directly using HTML5 audio controls.

Its important to use the “https://docs.google.com/uc?export=open&id=” url to open the file, as it provides the direct access to the shared file

<audio controls> <source src=”https://docs.google.com/uc?export=open&id=<?php echo $GoogleDriveFileID; ?>” type=”audio/mp3″> <p>This browser does not support HTML5 audio</p> </audio>

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Alexander

I am a full-stack developer. My expertise include:

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