Description
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
$ usage: gdown [-h] [-V] [-O OUTPUT] [-q] [--id] [--proxy PROXY] [--speed SPEED] 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--7Wd2vU3VUVlFnbTgtS2c'
output = 'spam.txt'
gdown.download(url, output, quiet=False)
License
See LICENSE.