I’m trying to download a file from google drive in a script, and I’m having a little trouble doing so. The files I’m trying to download are here.
I’ve looked online extensively and I finally managed to get one of them to download. I got the UIDs of the files and the smaller one (1.6MB) downloads fine, however the larger file (3.7GB) always redirects to a page which asks me whether I want to proceed with the download without a virus scan. Could someone help me get past that screen?
Here’s how I got the first file working
curl -L "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0Bz-w5tutuZIYeDU0VDRFWG9IVUE" > phlat-1.0.tar.gzWhen I run the same on the other file,
curl -L "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0Bz-w5tutuZIYY3h5YlMzTjhnbGM" > index4phlat.tar.gz
I notice on the third-to-last line in the link, there a &confirm=JwkK which is a random 4 character string but suggests there’s a way to add a confirmation to my URL. One of the links I visited suggested &confirm=no_antivirus but that’s not working.
I hope someone here can help with this!
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You can use gdown. Consider also visiting that page for full instructions; this is just a summary and the source repo may have more up-to-date instructions.
Instructions
Install it with the following command:
pip install gdown
After that, you can download any file from Google Drive by running one of these commands:
gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=<file_id> # for files
gdown --id <file_id> # alternative format
gdown --folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/<file_id> # for folders
gdown --folder --id <file_id> # this format works for folders too
Example: to download the readme file from this directory
gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7EVK8r0v71pOXBhSUdJWU1MYUk
The file_id should look something like 0Bz8a_Dbh9QhbNU3SGlFaDg. You can find this ID by right-clicking on the file of interest, and selecting Get link. As of November 2021, this link will be of the form:
# Files
https://drive.google.com/file/d/<file_id>/view?usp=sharing
# Folders
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/<file_id>
Caveats
- Only works on open access files. (“Anyone who has a link can View”)
- Cannot download more than 50 files into a single folder.
- If you have access to the source file, you can consider using tar/zip to make it a single file to work around this limitation.
Just remove export=download& from gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=your_file_id and it works like charm
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Have a look at this question: Direct download from Google Drive using Google Drive API
Basically you have to create a public directory and access your files by relative reference with something like
wget https://googledrive.com/host/LARGEPUBLICFOLDERID/index4phlat.tar.gz
Alternatively, you can use this script: https://github.com/circulosmeos/gdown.pl