peepshow/ sinks/ gdrive

Reel #50 Object storage

peepshow sink / gdrive

Google DriveUpload frames and manifest to a Google Drive folder.

Drive v3 multipart upload — raw fetch + Bearer token, no `googleapis` SDK.

What it does

Create a per-run subfolder under a Google Drive parent and upload every frame plus a `manifest.json`. Uses the Drive v3 multipart endpoint with a plain Bearer access token so there's no SDK or embedded OAuth flow.

When to reach for it

  • Personal / team Drive as a video archive alongside other project files
  • Service-account workflows in CI where a token is minted out-of-band
  • `gcloud auth print-access-token` on a workstation for ad-hoc uploads

Install

npm i -g peepshow

Use it

GDRIVE_ACCESS_TOKEN=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) \
GDRIVE_FOLDER_ID=1AbCd... \
peepshow ./clip.mp4 --sink gdrive

Make it automatic

Register the sink once — every run fires it afterward. Scope by --when so it only runs for matching videos.

peepshow sinks add gdrive
peepshow sinks add gdrive --when extension=mp4,mov
peepshow sinks add gdrive --when path=/Volumes/Work/

Configuration

  • GDRIVE_ACCESS_TOKEN OAuth access token (Bearer). Service-account or user. required
  • GDRIVE_FOLDER_ID Parent Drive folder id to upload into. required
  • GDRIVE_API_URL Override for Drive API endpoint.
  • GDRIVE_RUN_FOLDER_NAME Override the per-run subfolder name.

Use with an LLM agent

Every peepshow sink reads its config from env vars and receives a single JSON payload on stdin. An LLM agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini, Codex) can drive the Google Drive sink automatically when three things are true:

  • the env vars below are exported in the agent's shell (or a project .env it can load),
  • the peepshow CLI is on PATH — install with npm i -g peepshow,
  • a peepshow auto-sink is registered for the run (optional but recommended — makes invocation zero-argument).

1. Set the environment

# Add to ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, or a project .env the agent can load
export GDRIVE_ACCESS_TOKEN="..."
export GDRIVE_FOLDER_ID="..."

2. Register as an auto-sink

peepshow sinks add gdrive
peepshow sinks add gdrive --when extension=mp4,mov

3. Example LLM session

You → drop a .mov into Claude Code.

Claude → auto-invokes /peepshow:slides ./clip.mov. peepshow extracts frames + audio, the Google Drive sink forwards the run to the configured bucket / folder. Claude replies with a summary and a link to the created record.

The full transcript JSON is saved next to the frames in the manifest.

Write your own

A sink is any executable that reads the --emit json payload on stdin. Shell, Node, Python, Go — the spec's in docs/PLUGINS.md. Register persistent ones with peepshow sinks add-cmd 'your-command'.