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I want to download a folder from my google drive using terminal? Is there any way to do that? I tried this:
$ wget "https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-Zc9K0k9q-WWUlqMXAyTG40MjA&usp=sharing"
But it is downloading this text file: folderview?id=0B-Zc9K0k9q-WdEY5a1BCUDBaejQ&usp=sharing. Is there any way to download google drive folder from terminal?
I was able to download a public shared file using this command:
$ wget --no-check-certificate 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID' -O FILENAME
Where FILEID must be replaced by the actual file ID. FILENAME is the path/filename where download will be stored.
Note you cannot use a folderid instead of fileid. I have used view source in a folder view where I could find the following HTML <div id="entry-0B0jxxycBojSwVW.... The string starting with 0B was the fileid.
2 useful Python programs (require: sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip):
pip install gdownpip install gshell (maybe discontinued)To upload to GDrive, one can use https://labbots.github.io/google-drive-upload/.
Examples:
To download 1 public large file from Google Drive (5 GB):
# syntax: gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=FILE-ID
gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1LC5iVcvgksQhNVJ-CbMigqXnPAaquiA2
To download 1 folder:
gshell init # log in to your Google account
gshell ll # list files
gshell download spam.txt # download file -> you could script to download all files listed by gshell ll
I use gdown and it works well. I haven't tried gshell.
Note that if one uses gdown more than ~20 times within 24 hours (might depend on the file size), we get the error:
Access denied with the following error:
Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. Please try accessing the file again later. If the file you are trying to access is particularly large or is shared with many people, it may take up to 24 hours to be able to view or download the file. If you still can't access a file after 24 hours, contact your domain administrator.You may still be able to access the file from the browser:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1LC5iVcvgksQhNVJ-CbMigqXnPAaquiA2
gshell works perfectly even for shared link, all you have to do open link on the browser and select Add shortcut to Drive and the file will be available on your account files list
A newer, open-source multi-platform client, written in Go called drive is quite nice and full-featured, and also is in active development.
The pull command downloads data from Google Drive that does not exist locally, and deletes local data that is not present on Google Drive. Run it without any arguments to pull all of the files from the current path:
$ drive pullPulling by matches is also supported
$ cd ~/myDrive/content/2015 $ drive pull --matches vines docx
See the above link for further examples, these are just the tip of the iceberg.
drive pull 'Colab Notebooks/sorted/models/resnet-101-90.9-max-acc'. The other methods are a pain in the ass.
gdrive is the current up-to-date solution, also written in Go, even easier than the above one github.com/prasmussen/gdrive For instance, to download a folder you do gdrive download --recursive FOLDER_ID_FROM_URL, no config necessary, it will ask for your credentials.
copy means copying inside the drive - not to your local machine, and download is pull. I blew up my Google Drive trying to "copy" files to my local machine and was surprised to never get any local files.
There is a giant program in the ubuntu 17.04 repository called: rclone
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install rclone
$ rclone config --> than follow the steps to setup your gdrive
now you can rclone copy and sync everything you want. The projects supports all kinds of clouds.. f.e.:
$ rclone sync /home/<usrname>/Desktop/yourfolder gdrivename:yourfolder
(btw I uploaded about 600GB and transferred 1TB with rclone from gdrive to gdrive in few hours, gdrive to ubuntu and ubuntu to gdrive.. and it works terrific over weeks in a row!!
https://forum.rclone.org/t/can-copy-between-google-drive-accounts-without-download-and-upload-files/969/8
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rclone sync a b. I created a test dir and did rclone sync testdir drive:/important_folder and it attempted to delete all the files in drive:/important_folder. Fortunately, I had only given drive.readonly access to my drive. Reversing the order of arguments works.
Apr 20, 2020 at 17:02
rclone, but this actually works -- look at answers here: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37234/… It took me ~20 mins to go through enabling Google Drive API access, rclone config (you need to paste the client ID and secret there), then rclone ls gdrive: (gdrive: is the name you give to the remote you create in rclone config).
Nov 3, 2021 at 18:54
You can use the open source Linux / Unix command line tool gdrive.
To install it:
Download the binary. Choose the one that fits your architecture, for example gdrive-linux-x64.
Copy it to your path.
sudo cp gdrive-linux-x64 /usr/local/bin/gdrive;
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/gdrive;
To use it:
Determine the Google Drive folder's ID. For that, go inside the folder to download, using the drive.google.com web client. Now look at the URL in the browser's address bar, it will show something like https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7_OwkDsUIgFWXA1B2FPQfV5S8H. Obtain the string behind the last / and copy it to your clipboard. That's the folder's ID.
Download the folder. Of course, use your folder's ID instead in the following command.
gdrive download --recursive 0B7_OwkDsUIgFWXA1B2FPQfV5S8H
At first usage, the tool will need to obtain access permissions to the Google Drive API. For that, it will show you a link which you have to visit in a browser, and then you will get a verification code to copy&paste back to the tool. The download then starts automatically. There is no progress indicator, but you can observe the progress in a file manager or second terminal.
Source: A comment by Tobi in a stackoverflow.com question. Answer adapted from my similar answer over there.
you can try, if you are on firefox, installing cliget addon. For every file that you want to download program show you curl, wget or aria2 direct link for downloading that file. I use that to download files on other machines via ssh because it's much faster for me to download directly to remote computer then to upload that file from my computer. This also work with dropbox, gdrive etc.
wget can only handle direct links, but that is not the main problem here. Google Drive expects you to authenticate before downloading your file. This means you will have to use a web browser to download the file. There are a few web browsers for the terminal, lynx is an example.
If you choose to publicly share your file (so that anyone can download it) you can use one of the numerous Google Drive permalink services. I believe these should produce links that will work with wget. Here is a list of two I found when searching for information: http://gdriveurl.com/ http://gdurl.com/
Assuming you are running Linux there is an open source client for Google Drive that might be worth looking into.
Grive and Ocamlfuse but they can't access spreadsheets
Jun 10, 2014 at 10:37
Download binary from the below link
chmod +x <binary>
./drive download id
It will generate link for verification code. Click the link and allow access to gdrive and copy the verification code from browser. Paste it.
It works for me
ocamlfusecan handle this, I thought of downloading them everytime I need them though time comsuming with respect to mount. But I have no other options.wget https://googledrive.com/host/file_idfor you that iswget https://googledrive.com/host/0B-Zc9K0k9q-WdEY5a1BCUDBaejQ. Solution explained here in more details.