How do I search inside files in Google Drive?

Question

I am a Google Drive user (not a user or API developer). I want to know if there is a way to search inside the contents of a file. I know that file names can be found in the search bar. But I could not find a way to search inside the files.

For example,

I have a Names.txt file that contains

Oracle Microsoft IBM 

How can I get, say, Microsoft, just by doing a search?

I got this information

 useContentAsIndexableText boolean Whether to use the content as indexable text. (Default: false) 

of

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/insert

and nothing more useful: p

Any idea how to get the contents of a file by doing a search?

Answer 1

In fact, I found one way to sort files that contains text from the link below.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375114?hl=en&ref_topic=2463645

That is, by including the search term in double quotation marks.

So if I search with "Microsoft". Then only files containing Microsoft will be visible.

Answer 2

I think you need some kind of user interface for the full-text content search in your GDrive. There are several tools for this.

First, you can do this on your desktop using DTSearch or MetaSearch . Second, you can use the Findo cloud solution .

None of the solutions are right for me, so I decided to write my own cloud based search engine - Ambar . At the moment, it only supports Dropbox. But you can also try it manually.

Answer 3

You can use the "" in the search box, however, if you have a lot of PDF files, convert them to the DOC format so you can search for information in books. Although I would recommend saving your PDFs to your computer and analyzing them using a PDF reader (like PDF-XChange Viewer)

Answer 4

I create a new one on Google, but help me for your