wget curl large file from google drive

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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 amp id 0Bz-w5tutuZIYeDU0VDRFWG9IVUE   gt  phlat-1 0 tar gz   When I run the same on the other file    curl -L  https   docs google com uc export download amp id 0Bz-w5tutuZIYY3h5YlMzTjhnbGM   gt  index4phlat tar gz   I get the the following output -   I notice on the third-to-last line in the link  there a  amp 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  amp confirm no antivirus but that s not working   I hope someone here can help with this

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All of the above responses seem to obscure the simplicity of the answer or have some nuances that are not explained.

If the file is shared publicly, you can generate a direct download link by just knowing the file ID. The URL must be in the form " https://drive.google.com/uc?id=[FILEID]&export=download" This works as of 11-22-2019. This does not require the receiver to log in to google but does require the file to be shared publicly.

In your browser, navigate to drive.google.com.
Right click on the file, and click "Get a shareable link"

Open a new tab, select the address bar, and paste in the contents of your clipboard which will be the shareable link. You'll see the file displayed by Google's viewer. The ID is the number right before the "View" component of the URL:

Edit the URL so it is in the following format, replacing "[FILEID]" with the ID of your shared file:

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=[FILEID]&export=download
That's your direct download link. If you click on it in your browser the file will now be "pushed" to your browser, opening the download dialog, allowing you to save or open the file. You can also use this link in your download scripts.
So the equivalent curl command would be:

curl -L "https://drive.google.com/uc?id=AgOATNfjpovfFrft9QYa-P1IeF9e7GWcH&export=download" > phlat-1.0.tar.gz

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the easy way to down file from google drive you can also download file on colab     pip install gdown  import gdown   Then  url    https   drive google com uc id 0B9P1L--7Wd2vU3VUVlFnbTgtS2c  output    spam txt  gdown download url  output  quiet False    or  fileid  0B9P1L7Wd2vU3VUVlFnbTgtS2c   gdown https   drive google com uc id  fileid   Document https   pypi org project gdown

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Nov 2020 If you prefer using bash script  this worked for me   5Gb file  publicly available     bin bash if         2    then echo  quot Usage  googledown sh ID save name quot  exit 0 fi confirm   wget --quiet --save-cookies  tmp cookies txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate  https   docs google com uc export download amp id   1 -O-   sed -rn  s   confirm   0-9A-Za-z        1 n p   echo  confirm wget --load-cookies  tmp cookies txt  quot https   docs google com uc export download amp confirm  confirm amp id  1 quot  -O  2  amp  amp  rm -rf  tmp cookies txt

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After messing around with this garbage  I ve found a way to download my sweet file by using chrome - developer tools    At your google docs tab  Ctr Shift J  Setting --  Developer tools  Switch to Network tabs At your docs file  click  Download  --  Download as CSV  xlsx      It will show you the request in the  Network  console  Right click -  Copy -  Copy as Curl Your Curl command will be like this  and add -o to create a exported file   curl  https   docs google com spreadsheets d 1Cjsryejgn29BDiInOrGZWvg export format xlsx amp id 1Cjsryejgn29BDiInOrGZWvg  -H  authority  docs google com  -H  upgrade-insecure-requests  1  -H  user-agent  Mozilla 5 0  X      -o server xlsx    Solved

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Here is workaround which I came up download files from Google Drive to my Google Cloud Linux shell    Share the file to PUBLIC and with Edit permissions using advanced sharing  You will get a sharing link which would have an ID  See the link - drive google com file d  ID  view usp sharing Copy that ID and Paste it in the following link -   googledrive com host  ID    The above link would be our download link  Use wget to download the file -   wget https   googledrive com host  ID    This command will download the file with name as  ID  with no extension and but with same file size on the same location where you ran the wget command  Actually  I downloaded a zipped folder in my practice  so I renamed that awkward file using -   mv  ID  1 zip   then using    unzip 1 zip  we will get the files

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I found a working solution to this    Simply use the following   wget --load-cookies  tmp cookies txt  https   docs google com uc export download amp confirm   wget --quiet --save-cookies  tmp cookies txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate  https   docs google com uc export download amp id 1HlzTR1-YVoBPlXo0gMFJ xY4ogMnfzDi  -O-   sed -rn  s   confirm   0-9A-Za-z        1 n p   amp id 1HlzTR1-YVoBPlXo0gMFJ xY4ogMnfzDi  -O besteyewear zip  amp  amp  rm -rf  tmp cookies txt

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There s an easier way   Install cliget CURLWGET from firefox chrome extension    Download the file from browser  This creates a curl wget link that remembers the cookies and headers used while downloading the file  Use this command from any shell to download

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The easiest way is    Create download link and copy fileID  Download with WGET  wget --load-cookies  tmp cookies txt  https   docs google com uc export download amp confirm   wget --quiet --save-cookies  tmp cookies txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate  https   docs google com uc export download amp id FILEID  -O-   sed -rn  s   confirm   0-9A-Za-z        1 n p   amp id FILEID  -O FILENAME  amp  amp  rm -rf  tmp cookies txt

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skicka is a cli tool to upload download access files from a google-drive    example -   skicka download  Pictures 2014   Pictures copy 2014 10   10                                                         100 00    skicka  preparation time 1s  sync time 6s skicka  updated 0 Drive files  10 local files skicka  0 B read from disk  16 18 MiB written to disk skicka  0 B uploaded  0 B s   16 18 MiB downloaded  2 33 MiB s  skicka  50 23 MiB peak memory used

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The easy way    if you just need it for a one-off download    Go to the Google Drive webpage that has the download link Open your browser console and go to the  network  tab Click the download link Wait for it the file to start downloading  and find the corresponding request  should be the last one in the list   then you can cancel the download Right click on the request and click  Copy as cURL   or similar    You should end up with something like   curl  https   doc-0s-80-docs googleusercontent com docs securesc aa51s66fhf9273i                    blah blah blah               gEIqZ3KAQ    --compressed   Past it in your console  add  gt  my-file-name extension to the end  otherwise it will write the file into your console   then press enter

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I was unable to get Nanoix s perl script to work  or other curl examples I had seen  so I started looking into the api myself in python   This worked fine for small files  but large files choked past available ram so I found some other nice chunking code that uses the api s ability to partial download   Gist here   https   gist github com csik c4c90987224150e4a0b2  Note the bit about downloading client secret json file from the API interface to your local directory   Source    cat gdrive dl py from pydrive auth import GoogleAuth   from pydrive drive import GoogleDrive         API calls to download a very large google drive file   The drive API only allows downloading to ram      unlike  say  the Requests library s streaming option  so the files has to be partially downloaded    and chunked   Authentication requires a google api key  and a local download of client secrets json    Thanks to Radek for the key functions  http   stackoverflow com questions 27617258 memoryerror-how-to-download-large-file-via-google-drive-sdk-using-python      def partial total byte len  part size limit       s          for p in range 0  total byte len  part size limit           last   min total byte len - 1  p   part size limit - 1          s append  p  last       return s  def GD download file service  file id     drive file   service files   get fileId file id  execute     download url   drive file get  downloadUrl     total size   int drive file get  fileSize      s   partial total size  100000000    I m downloading BIG files  so 100M chunk size is fine for me   title   drive file get  title     originalFilename   drive file get  originalFilename     filename          originalFilename   if download url        with open filename   wb   as file          print  Bytes downloaded            for bytes in s            headers     Range     bytes  s- s     bytes 0   bytes 1              resp  content   service  http request download url  headers headers            if resp status    206                   file write content                  file flush             else              print  An error occurred   s    resp             return None           print str bytes 1               return title  filename   else      return None             gauth   GoogleAuth   gauth CommandLineAuth    requires cut and paste from a browser   FILE ID    SOMEID   FileID is the simple file hash  like 0B1NzlxZ5RpdKS0NOS0x0Ym9kR0U  drive   GoogleDrive gauth  service   gauth service  file   drive CreateFile   id  FILE ID        Use this to get file metadata GD download file service  FILE ID

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May 2018 WORKING  Hi based on this comments     i create a bash to export a list of URL from file URLS txt to a URLS DECODED txt an used in some accelerator like flashget   i use cygwin to combine windows  amp  linux    Command spider was introduced to avoid download and get the final link   directly    Command GREP HEAD and CUT  process and get the final link  Is based in spanish language  maybe you could be port to ENGLISH LANGUAGE  echo -e   URL TO DOWNLOAD r  probably the  r is only cywin and must be replace by a  n  break line             user            is the user folder         Localizaci  n            is in spanish language  clear the asterics and let the word in english Location and adapt THE HEAD and the CUT numbers to appropiate approach   rm -rf  home           user            URLS DECODED txt COUNTER 0 while read p  do      string  p     hash    string  id        hash    hash  amp         hash    hash  file d        hash    hash          let COUNTER COUNTER 1     echo  Enlace   COUNTER  id   hash     URL TO DOWNLOAD   wget --spider --load-cookies  tmp cookies txt  https   docs google com uc export download amp confirm   wget --quiet --save-cookies  tmp cookies txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate  https   docs google com uc export download amp id   hash -O-   sed -rn  s   confirm   0-9A-Za-z        1 n p   amp id   hash 2 gt  amp 1   grep        Localizaci  n               head -c-13   cut -c16-      rm -rf  tmp cookies txt     echo -e   URL TO DOWNLOAD r   gt  gt   home           user            URLS DECODED txt     echo  Enlace   COUNTER  URL   URL TO DOWNLOAD done  lt   home           user            URLS txt

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WARNING  This functionality is deprecated   See warning below in comments     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

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I did this using a python script and google drive api  You can try out this snippet     using chunk download  file id    someid  request   drive service files   get media fileId file id  fh   io BytesIO   downloader   MediaIoBaseDownload fh  request  done   False while done is False      status  done   downloader next chunk       print  Download  d       int status progress     100

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Here s a little bash script I wrote that does the job today  It works on large files and can resume partially fetched files too  It takes two arguments  the first is the file id and the second is the name of the output file  The main improvements over previous answers here are that it works on large files and only needs commonly available tools  bash  curl  tr  grep  du  cut and mv      usr bin env bash fileid   1  destination   2     try to download the file curl -c  tmp cookie -L -o  tmp probe bin  https   drive google com uc export download amp id   fileid   probeSize  du -b  tmp probe bin   cut -f1     did we get a virus message    this will be the first line we get when trying to retrive a large file bigFileSig   lt  DOCTYPE html gt  lt html gt  lt head gt  lt title gt Google Drive - Virus scan warning lt  title gt  lt meta http-equiv  content-type  content  text html  charset utf-8   gt   sigSize    bigFileSig   if    probeSize  lt   sigSize     then   virusMessage false else   firstBytes   head -c  sigSize  tmp probe bin    if     firstBytes      bigFileSig     then     virusMessage true   else     virusMessage false   fi fi  if     virusMessage    true     then   confirm   tr       n   lt  tmp probe bin   grep confirm    confirm   confirm 8 4    curl -C - -b  tmp cookie -L -o   destination   https   drive google com uc export download amp id   fileid  amp confirm   confirm   else   mv  tmp probe bin   destination  fi

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There s an open-source multi-platform client  written in Go  drive  It s quite nice and full-featured  and also is in active development     drive help pull Name         pull - pulls remote changes from Google Drive Description         Downloads content from the remote drive or modifies          local content to match that on your Google Drive  Note  You can skip checksum verification by passing in flag  -ignore-checksum     For usage flags   drive pull -h

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The easiest way to is put what ever you want to download in a folder  Share that folder and then grab the Folder ID from the URL Bar    Then go to https   googledrive com host  ID    Replace the ID with your folder ID  You should see a list of all the files in that folder  click the one you want to download  A download should then visit your download page  Ctrl J on Chrome   you then want to copy the download link then use wget  download link   Enjoy

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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 file ID  For that  right-click the desired file in the Google Drive website and choose  Get Link       It will return something like https   drive google com open id 0B7 OwkDsUIgFWXA1B2FPQfV5S8H  Obtain the string behind the  id  and copy it to your clipboard  That s the file s ID  Download the file  Of course  use your file s ID instead in the following command   gdrive download 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 amp 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 on another answer here    nbsp   Additional trick  rate limiting  To download with gdrive at a limited maximum rate  to not swamp the network       you can use a command like this  pv is PipeViewer    gdrive download --stdout 0B7 OwkDsUIgFWXA1B2FPQfV5S8H       pv -br -L 90k       cat  gt  file ext   This will show the amount of data downloaded  -b  and the rate of download  -r  and limit that rate to 90 kiB s  -L 90k

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I wrote a Python snippet that downloads a file from Google Drive  given a shareable link  It works  as of August 2017    The snipped does not use gdrive  nor the Google Drive API  It uses the requests module   When downloading large files from Google Drive  a single GET request is not sufficient  A second one is needed  and this one has an extra URL parameter called confirm  whose value should equal the value of a certain cookie   import requests  def download file from google drive id  destination       def get confirm token response           for key  value in response cookies items                if key startswith  download warning                    return value          return None      def save response content response  destination           CHUNK SIZE   32768          with open destination   wb   as f              for chunk in response iter content CHUNK SIZE                   if chunk    filter out keep-alive new chunks                     f write chunk       URL    https   docs google com uc export download       session   requests Session        response   session get URL  params      id    id    stream   True      token   get confirm token response       if token          params      id    id   confirm    token           response   session get URL  params   params  stream   True       save response content response  destination        if   name         main         import sys     if len sys argv  is not 3          print  Usage  python google drive py drive file id destination file path       else            TAKE ID FROM SHAREABLE LINK         file id   sys argv 1            DESTINATION FILE ON YOUR DISK         destination   sys argv 2          download file from google drive file id  destination

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The above answers are outdated for April 2020  since google drive now uses a redirect to the actual location of the file   Working as of April 2020 on macOS 10 15 4 for public documents     this is used for drive directly downloads function download-google      echo  https   drive google com uc export download amp id  1    mkdir -p  tmp   curl -c  tmp  1cookies  https   drive google com uc export download amp id  1   gt   tmp  1intermezzo html    curl -L -b  tmp  1cookies    egrep -o  https  download   tmp  1intermezzo html    gt   2       some files are shared using an indirect download function download-google-2      echo  https   drive google com uc export download amp id  1    mkdir -p  tmp   curl -c  tmp  1cookies  https   drive google com uc export download amp id  1   gt   tmp  1intermezzo html    code   egrep -o  confirm      amp amp id    tmp  1intermezzo html   cut -d    -f2   cut -d  amp   -f1    curl -L -b  tmp  1cookies  https   drive google com uc export download amp confirm  code amp id  1   gt   2       used like this download-google  lt id gt   lt name of item extension gt

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The default behavior of google drive is to scan files for viruses if the file is to big it will prompte the user and notifies him that the file could not be scanned    At the moment the only workaround I found is to share the file with the web and create a web resource    Quote from the google drive help page   With Drive  you can make web resources     like HTML  CSS  and Javascript files     viewable as a website   To host a webpage with Drive         Open Drive at drive google com and select a file      Click the Share button at the top of the page      Click Advanced in the bottom right corner of the sharing box      Click Change         Choose On - Public on the web and click Save      Before closing the sharing box  copy the document ID from the URL in the field below  Link to share   The document ID is a string of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers between slashes in the URL      Share the URL that looks like  www googledrive com host  doc id  where  doc id  is replaced by the document ID you copied in step 6    Anyone can now view your webpage         Found here  https   support google com drive answer 2881970 hl en  So for example when you share a file on google drive publicly the sharelink looks like this   https   drive google com file d 0B5IRsLTwEO6CVXFURmpQZ1Jxc0U view usp sharing   Then you copy the file id and create a googledrive com linke that look like this   https   www googledrive com host 0B5IRsLTwEO6CVXFURmpQZ1Jxc0U

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Here s a quick way to do this   Make sure the link is shared  and it will look something like this   https   drive google com open id FILEID amp authuser 0  Then  copy that FILEID and use it like this  wget --no-check-certificate  https   docs google com uc export download amp id FILEID  -O FILENAME

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Sep 2020  First  extract the ID of your desire file from google drive   In your browser  navigate to drive google com   Right-click on the file  and click  quot Get a shareable link quot    Then extract the ID of the file from URL      Next  install gdown PyPI module using pip  pip install gdown  Finally  download the file using gdown and the intended ID  gdown --id  lt put-the-ID gt      NOTE    In google-colab you have to use   before bash commands   i e   gdown --id 1-1wAx7b-USG0eQwIBVwVDUl3K1 1ReCt

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I had the same problem with Google Drive   Here s how I solved the problem using Links 2    Open a browser on your PC  navigate to your file in Google Drive  Give your file a public link  Copy the public link to your clipboard  eg right click  Copy link address  Open a Terminal  If you re downloading to another PC server machine you should SSH to it as this point Install Links 2  debian ubuntu method  use your distro or OS equivalent   sudo apt-get install links2 Paste the link in to your terminal and open it with Links like so   links2  paste url here  Navigate to the download link within Links using your Arrow Keys and press Enter Choose a filename and it ll download your file

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ggID  put googleID here    ggURL  https   drive google com uc export download    filename    curl -sc  tmp gcokie    ggURL  amp id   ggID     grep -o    uc-name   lt  span gt     sed  s     gt    s  lt  a gt            getcode    awk    warning    print  NF    tmp gcokie     curl -Lb  tmp gcokie    ggURL  amp confirm   getcode  amp id   ggID   -o    filename       How does it work  Get cookie file and html code with curl  Pipe html to grep and sed and search for file name  Get confirm code from cookie file with awk  Finally download file with cookie enabled   confirm code and filename     curl -Lb  tmp gcokie  https   drive google com uc export download amp confirm Uq6r amp id 0B5IRsLTwEO6CVXFURmpQZ1Jxc0U  -o  SomeBigFile zip      If you dont need filename variable curl can guess it -L Follow redirects -O Remote-name -J Remote-header-name     curl -sc  tmp gcokie    ggURL  amp id   ggID    gt  dev null   getcode    awk    warning    print  NF    tmp gcokie     curl -LOJb  tmp gcokie    ggURL  amp confirm   getcode  amp id   ggID        To extract google file ID from URL you can use     echo  gURL    egrep -o    w -  26        match more than 26 word characters     OR    echo  gURL    sed  s   A-Za-z0-9 -   n g    sed -rn     26  p      replace non-word characters with new line       print only line with more than 26 word characters

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--UPDATED--  To download the file first get youtube-dl for python from here   youtube-dl  https   rg3 github io youtube-dl download html  or install it with pip   sudo python2 7 -m pip install --upgrade youtube dl    or    sudo python3 6 -m pip install --upgrade youtube dl     UPDATE   I just found out this    Right click on the file you want to download from drive google com Click Get Sharable link Toggle On Link sharing on Click on Sharing settings Click on the top dropdown for options Click on More Select  x  On - Anyone with a link Copy Link   https   drive google com file d 3PIY9dCoWRs-930HHvY-3-FOOPrIVoBAR view usp sharing         This is not a real file address    Copy the id after https   drive google com file d    3PIY9dCoWRs-930HHvY-3-FOOPrIVoBAR   Paste this into command line   youtube-dl https   drive google com open id    Paste the id behind open id   youtube-dl https   drive google com open id 3PIY9dCoWRs-930HHvY-3-FOOPrIVoBAR    GoogleDrive  3PIY9dCoWRs-930HHvY-3-FOOPrIVoBAR  Downloading webpage  GoogleDrive  3PIY9dCoWRs-930HHvY-3-FOOPrIVoBAR  Requesting source file  download  Destination  your requested filename here-3PIY9dCoWRs-930HHvY-3-FOOPrIVoBAR  download  240 37MiB at  2321 53MiB s  00 01    Hope it helps

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Get the shareable link and open it in incognito  very important   It will say that it cannot scan    Open inspector and track network traffic  Click the button  Download anyway    Copy the url of the last request made  This is your link  Use it in wget

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I have been using the curl snippet of  Amit Chahar who posted a good answer in this thread  I found it useful to put it in a bash function rather than a separate  sh file function curl gdrive        GDRIVE FILE ID  1     DEST PATH  2      curl -c   cookie -s -L  quot https   drive google com uc export download amp id   GDRIVE FILE ID  quot   gt   dev null     curl -Lb   cookie  quot https   drive google com uc export download amp confirm  awk   download   print  NF     cookie  amp id   GDRIVE FILE ID  quot  -o   DEST PATH      rm -f cookie    that can be included in e g a    bashrc  after sourcing it ofcourse if not sourced automatically  and used in the following way      curl gdrive 153bpzybhfqDspyO gdbcG5CMlI19ASba imagenet tar

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JULY 2020 - Windows users batch file solution I would like to add a simple batch file solution for windows users  as I found only linux solutions and it took me several days to learn all this stuff for creating a solution for windows  So to save this work from others that may need it  here it is  Tools you need  wget for windows  small 5KB exe program  no need installation  Download it from here  https   eternallybored org misc wget   jrepl for windows  small 117KB batch file program  no need installation  This tool is similar to linux sed tool  Download it from here  https   www dostips com forum viewtopic php t 6044   Assuming  filename  - the file name you want the the download will be saved to   fileid      google file id  as already was explained here before  Batch code for downloading small file from google drive wget -O  quot  filename  quot   quot https   docs google com uc export download amp id  fileid  quot           Batch code for downloading large file from google drive set cookieFile  quot cookie txt quot  set confirmFile  quot confirm txt quot      REM downlaod cooky and message with request for confirmation wget --quiet --save-cookies  quot  cookieFile  quot  --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate  quot https   docs google com uc export download amp id  fileid  quot  -O  quot  confirmFile  quot      REM extract confirmation key from message saved in confirm file and keep in variable resVar jrepl  quot   confirm   0-9A-Za-z       quot   quot  1 quot   F  quot  confirmFile  quot   A  rtn resVar     REM when jrepl writes to variable  it adds carriage return  CR   0x0D  and a line feed  LF   0x0A   so remove these two last characters set confirmKey  resVar  0 -2      REM download the file using cookie and confirmation key wget --load-cookies  quot  cookieFile  quot  -O  quot  filename  quot   quot https   docs google com uc export download amp id  fileid  amp confirm  confirmKey  quot      REM clear temporary files  del  cookieFile  del  confirmFile

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No answer proposes what works for me as of december 2016  source    curl -L https   drive google com uc id  FileID    provided the Google Drive file has been shared with those having the link and  FileID  is the string behind  id  in the shared URL   Although I did not check with huge files  I believe it might be useful to know

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May 2018  If you want to use curl to download a file from Google Drive  in addition to the file id in drive you also need an OAuth2 access token for Google Drive API   Getting the token involves several steps with the Google API framework  The sign up steps with Google are  currently  free   An OAuth2 access token potentially allows all kinds of activity  so be careful with it   Also  the token times out after a short while  1 hour   but not short enough to prevent abuse if someone captures it   Once you have an access token and the fileid  this will work   AUTH  Authorization  Bearer the access token goes here  FILEID  fileid goes here  URL https   www googleapis com drive v3 files  FILEID alt media curl --header   AUTH   URL  gt myfile ext   See also  Google Drive APIs -- REST -- Download Files

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Dec 2020 You can use the gdown   pip install gdown gdown https   drive google com uc id file id  The file id should look something like 0Bz8a Dbh9QhbNU3SGlFaDg You can get it by right clicking on the file and then Get shareable link  Only work on open access files  Anyone who has a link can View   Does not work for directories  Tested on Google Colab  Works best on file download  Use tar zip to make it a single file  Example  to download the readme file from this directory gdown https   drive google com uc id 0B7EVK8r0v71pOXBhSUdJWU1MYUk

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Use youtube-dl   youtube-dl https   drive google com open id ABCDEFG1234567890   You can also pass --get-url to get a direct download URL

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Solution using only Google Drive API Before running the code bellow  you must activate the Google Drive API  install dependencies and authenticate with your account  Instructions can be found on the original Google Drive API guide page import io import os import pickle import sys  argparse from googleapiclient discovery import build from google auth transport requests import Request from googleapiclient http import MediaIoBaseDownload from google auth oauthlib flow import InstalledAppFlow    If modifying these scopes  delete the file token pickle  SCOPES     https   www googleapis com auth drive readonly     def  main file id  output        quot  quot  quot  Shows basic usage of the Drive v3 API          Prints the names and ids of the first 10 files the user has access to       quot  quot  quot      if not file id          sys exit   nMissing arguments  Correct usage  ndrive api download py --file id  lt file id gt   --output output name  n       elif not output          output    quot    quot    file id          creds   None       The file token pickle stores the user s access and refresh tokens  and is       created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first       time      if os path exists  token pickle            with open  token pickle    rb   as token              creds   pickle load token        If there are no  valid  credentials available  let the user log in      if not creds or not creds valid          if creds and creds expired and creds refresh token              creds refresh Request            else              flow   InstalledAppFlow from client secrets file                   credentials json   SCOPES              creds   flow run local server port 0            Save the credentials for the next run         with open  token pickle    wb   as token              pickle dump creds  token       service   build  drive    v3   credentials creds         Downloads file     request   service files   get media fileId file id      fp   open output   quot wb quot       downloader   MediaIoBaseDownload fp  request      done   False     while done is False          status  done   downloader next chunk num retries 3          print  quot Download  d    quot    int status progress     100    if   name         main         parser   argparse ArgumentParser       parser add argument  -i    --file id       parser add argument  -o    --output       args   parser parse args             main args file id  args output

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Based on the answer from Roshan Sethia  May 2018  Using WGET    Create a shell script called wgetgdrive sh as below      bin bash    Get files from Google Drive     1   file ID    2   file name  URL  https   docs google com uc export download amp id  1   wget --load-cookies  tmp cookies txt  https   docs google com uc export download amp confirm   wget --quiet --save-cookies  tmp cookies txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate  URL -O-   sed -rn  s   confirm   0-9A-Za-z        1 n p   amp id  1  -O  2  amp  amp  rm -rf  tmp cookies txt  Give the right permissions to execute the script In terminal  run     wgetgdrive sh  lt file ID gt   lt filename gt    for example     wgetgdrive sh 1lsDPURlTNzS62xEOAIG98gsaW6x2PYd2 images zip

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This works as of Nov 2017 https   gist github com ppetraki 258ea8240041e19ab258a736781f06db     bin bash  SOURCE   1  if      SOURCE            then     echo  Must specify a source url      exit 1 fi  DEST   2  if      DEST            then     echo  Must specify a destination filename      exit 1 fi  FILEID   echo  SOURCE   rev   cut -d  -f1   rev  COOKIES   mktemp   CODE   wget --save-cookies  COOKIES --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate  https   docs google com uc export download amp id   FILEID   -O-   sed -rn  s   confirm   0-9A-Za-z       Code   1 n p      cleanup the code  format is  Code  XXXX  CODE   echo  CODE   rev   cut -d  -f1   rev   xargs   wget --load-cookies  COOKIES  https   docs google com uc export download amp confirm   CODE  amp id   FILEID   -O  DEST  rm -f  COOKIES

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You just need to use wget with    https   drive google com uc authuser 0 amp id  your ID without brackets  amp export download   PD  The file must be public

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Update as of March 2018   I tried various techniques given in other answers to download my file  6 GB  directly from Google drive to my AWS ec2 instance but none of them work  might be because they are old    So  for the information of others  here is how I did it successfully    Right-click on the file you want to download  click share  under link sharing section  select  anyone with this link can edit   Copy the link  It should be in this format  https   drive google com file d FILEIDENTIFIER view usp sharing Copy the FILEIDENTIFIER portion from the link  Copy the below script to a file  It uses curl and processes the cookie to automate the downloading of the file      bin bash fileid  FILEIDENTIFIER  filename  FILENAME  curl -c   cookie -s -L  https   drive google com uc export download amp id   fileid    gt   dev null curl -Lb   cookie  https   drive google com uc export download amp confirm  awk   download   print  NF     cookie  amp id   fileid   -o   filename   As shown above  paste the FILEIDENTIFIER in the script  Remember to keep the double quotes  Provide a name for the file in place of FILENAME  Remember to keep the double quotes and also include the extension in FILENAME  for example  myfile zip   Now  save the file and make the file executable by running this command in terminal sudo chmod  x download-gdrive sh  Run the script using    download-gdrive sh      PS  Here is the Github gist for the above given script  https   gist github com amit-chahar db49ce64f46367325293e4cce13d2424

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Alternative Method  2020 Works well for headless servers  I was trying to download a  200GB private file but couldn t get any of the other methods  mentioned in this thread  to work  Solution   Skip this step if the file is already in your own google drive  Make a copy of the file you want to download from a Public Shared Folder into your Google Drive account  Select File - gt  Right Click - gt  Make a copy    Install and setup Rclone  an open-source command line tool  to sync files between your local storage and Google Drive  Here s a quick tutorial to install and setup rclone for Google Drive   Copy your file from Google Drive to your machine using Rclone   rclone copy mygoogledrive path to file  path to file on local machine -P  -P argument helps to track progress of the download and lets you know when its finished

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