Download Google Drive Files using wget in linux - gdown

In this Post we will know how to Download Google Drive Files using wget in linux - gdown. Files can be downloaded from google drive using wget. Before that you need to know that files are small and large sized in google drive.

Files less than 100MB are regarded as small files where as files greater than 100MB are regarded as large files.

Before the file to be downloaded it is needed to be share publicly.

Steps:

1. Select a file that is need to be downloaded and do right click.
2. Click Share. A dialog box will appear.
3. Click Advance in the right bottom corner.
4. Click on the Change.. under who has access.
5. Make it On- Public on the web.
6. Click Save button.
7. Copy the link for sharing…like…https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UibyVC_C2hoT_XEw15gPEwPW4yFyJFeOEA/view?usp=sharing
8. Extrac FILEID part like….from above….1UibyVC_C2hoT_XEw15gPEwPW4yFyJFeOEA

SO for small file run following command on your terminal:

wget --no-check-certificate 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID' -O FILENAME

In the above command change the FILEID by above id extracted and rename FILENAME for your own simple use.

For lagre file run the following command with necessary changes in FILEID and FILENAME:

wget --load-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=$(wget --quiet --save-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID' -O- | sed -rn 's/.*confirm=([0-9A-Za-z_]+).*/\1\n/p')&id=FILEID" -O FILENAME && rm -rf /tmp/cookies.txt

To make the process simple we can use the tool gdown based on wget:-

pip install gdown

In terminal:
gdown --id FILEID -O FILENAME

In python:

import gdown

url = 'https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B9P1L--7Wd2vU3VUVlFnbTgtS2c'
output = 'spam.txt'
gdown.download(url, output, quiet=False)

Source: https://pypi.org/project/gdown/

Download a large file from Google Drive.
If you use curl/wget, it fails with a large file because of the security warning from Google Drive.
Installation
pip install gdown
Usage
From Command Line
$ gdown --help
usage: gdown [-h] [-V] [-O OUTPUT] [-q] [--id] [--proxy PROXY] [--speed SPEED]
             [--no-cookies]
             url_or_id
...

$ # a large file (~400MB)
$ gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B_NiLAzvehC9R2stRmQyM3ZiVjQ
$ # gdown --id 0B_NiLAzvehC9R2stRmQyM3ZiVjQ
$ md5sum pose_estimation_2d_chainermodel.pkl
587933c2c0adf335ebed0486c183541f

$ # a small file
$ gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B9P1L--7Wd2vU3VUVlFnbTgtS2c
$ cat spam.txt
spam

$ # as an alternative to curl/wget
$ gdown https://httpbin.org/ip -O ip.json
$ cat ip.json
{
  "origin": "126.169.213.247"
}

$ # write stdout and pipe to extract
$ gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B9P1L--7Wd2vNm9zMTJWOGxobkU -O - --quiet | tar zxvf -
$ ls 20150428_collected_images/

$ # it can handle urls created from [Share] -> [Copy Url] on Google Drive
$ gdown 'https://drive.google.com/a/jsk.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uc?id=0B_NiLAzvehC9R2stRmQyM3ZiVjQ'
From Python
import gdown

url = 'https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B9P1L--7Wd2vNm9zMTJWOGxobkU'
output = '20150428_collected_images.tgz'
gdown.download(url, output, quiet=False)

md5 = 'fa837a88f0c40c513d975104edf3da17'
gdown.cached_download(url, output, md5=md5, postprocess=gdown.extractall)