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Download Large Files from Google Drive
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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uaudith commented Jan 19, 2020

thank you

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For some reason I keep getting "killed". Is there a reason for this?

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csik commented Nov 4, 2020

Hi Vincent I posted this in 2015 so 7 years later I'm guessing the api might have changed... or perhaps the code has become murderous. Let's hope the former.

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