Uploading File into Google Drive (because grive too many dependencies qt, xorg ? )

google.sh

#!/bin/bash

## uploading to google
## rev: 22 Aug 2012 16:07

det=`date +%F`
browser="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1"
username="user@domain-apps.com"
password="password"
accountype="HOSTED" #gooApps = HOSTED , gmail=GOOGLE
pewede="/tmp"
file="file-$det.tar"
tipe="application/x-tar"

/usr/bin/curl -v --data-urlencode Email=$username --data-urlencode Passwd=$password -d accountType=$accountype -d service=writely -d source=cURL "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" > $pewede/login.txt

token=`cat $pewede/login.txt | grep Auth | cut -d \= -f 2`


uploadlink=`/usr/bin/curl -Sv -k --request POST  -H "Content-Length: 0" -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" -H "GData-Version: 3.0" -H "Content-Type: $tipe" -H "Slug: $file" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false" -D /dev/stdout | grep "Location:" | sed s/"Location: "//`

/usr/bin/curl -Sv -k --request POST --data-binary "@$file" -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" -H "GData-Version: 3.0" -H "Content-Type: $tipe" -H "Slug: $file" "$uploadlink" > $pewede/goolog.upload.txt

thanx for sharing this
i ve made few improvements:

file is given by argument, auto detection of mimetype, creditential is now outside of the script:

if [ ! -f $1 ];then
        echo "please provide a file in arg"
        exit -1
fi
creditFile=credits.ini
if [ ! -f $creditFile ];then
        echo "please fill $creditFile (file has just been created)"
        echo "username=$login
password=$pass">$creditFile
        exit -1
fi

file="$1"
browser="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1"
. credits.ini
username=$login
password=$pass
accountype="GOOGLE" #gooApps = HOSTED , gmail=GOOGLE
mime_type=`file -b --mime-type $file`

/usr/bin/curl -v --data-urlencode Email=$username --data-urlencode Passwd=$password -d accountType=$accountype -d service=writely -d source=cURL "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" > /tmp/login.txt

token=`cat /tmp/login.txt | grep Auth | cut -d \= -f 2`

uploadlink=`/usr/bin/curl -Sv -k --request POST -H "Content-Length: 0" -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" -H "GData-Version: 3.0" -H "Content-Type: $mime_type" -H "Slug: $file" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false" -D /dev/stdout | grep "Location:" | sed s/"Location: "//`

/usr/bin/curl -Sv -k --request POST --data-binary "@$file" -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" -H "GData-Version: 3.0" -H "Content-Type: $mime_type" -H "Slug: $file" "$uploadlink" > /tmp/goolog.upload.txt

How would last curl look with file upload to specific folder on google drive?

Here is an URL I used for second curl to upload file to a specific folder:

https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full/folder:$folderId/contents?convert=false

instead of

https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false

$folderId can be found from Google Drive URL in your browser, i.e.

https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/1234567890AB-CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR

I couldn't get the first curl to work but I was able to get the following to return the Auth string.
curl -s -d Email='me%40gmail.com' -d Passwd='123ABcdE' -d accountType=GOOGLE -d source=Google-cURL-Example -d service=lh2 "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin

I have a question about the "service=lh2". Research says it's for Picasa Web. I can't find one for GDrive.

When the second curl runs (uploadlink) I get "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized".

Suggestions?
Thanks

Suck-sess - had to change the "lh2" to "writely" and add the mimi_type= line and bingo. Now to see if I can get it to run on my hosted web server.

Suck-sess - had to change the "lh2" to "writely" and add the mimi_type= line and bingo file uploaded. Now to see if I can get it to run on my hosted web server.

Well - no luck. When executing the first curl (Auth) I get "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" with a "-k" added and without I get:

curl: (60) error setting certificate verify locations:
CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none

More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

I will continue to play - however, some help from someone with more knowledge would really be nice.

Thanks.

Stumbled across "Google will block access from the location(s) you don't normally use - like home and you can't use the coffee shop - but if you go to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha it give you a few minutes to login from there.

Hi liderbug,

no problem with my environment.. this is running from fresh environment..

[deanet@lumbung ~]$ bash -x bin/google.sh 
++ date +%F
+ det=2013-08-02
+ browser='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1'
+ username=*snip*
+ password='*snip*'
+ accountype=GOOGLE
+ pewede=/tmp
+ file=icecast.tar
+ tipe=application/x-tar
+ /usr/bin/curl -v --data-urlencode Email=*snip* --data-urlencode 'Passwd=*snip*' -d accountType=GOOGLE -d service=writely -d source=cURL https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin
* About to connect() to www.google.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 2607:f8b0:4008:803::1014... connected
* Connected to www.google.com (2607:f8b0:4008:803::1014) port 443 (#0)
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
*   CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none
* SSL connection using SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
* Server certificate:
*   subject: CN=www.google.com,O=Google Inc,L=Mountain View,ST=California,C=US
*   start date: Jul 12 08:56:36 2013 GMT
*   expire date: Oct 31 23:59:59 2013 GMT
*   common name: www.google.com
*   issuer: CN=Google Internet Authority,O=Google Inc,C=US
> POST /accounts/ClientLogin HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.14.0.0 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
> Host: www.google.com
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 102
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
} [data not shown]
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0   102      0    423 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   423< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Cache-control: no-cache, no-store
< Pragma: no-cache
< Expires: Mon, 01-Jan-1990 00:00:00 GMT
< Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:18:02 GMT
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< Content-Length: 818
< Server: GSE
< 
{ [data not shown]
115   818  102   818    0   102   2857    356 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 15911* Connection #0 to host www.google.com left intact

* Closing connection #0
++ cut -d = -f 2
++ grep Auth
++ cat /tmp/login.txt
+ token=*snip*
++ sed 's/Location: //'
++ grep Location:
++ /usr/bin/curl -Sv -k --request POST -H 'Content-Length: 0' -H 'Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=*snip*' -H 'GData-Version: 3.0' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-tar' -H 'Slug: icecast.tar' 'https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false' -D /dev/stdout
* About to connect() to docs.google.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 2607:f8b0:4008:803::1006... connected
* Connected to docs.google.com (2607:f8b0:4008:803::1006) port 443 (#0)
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
* warning: ignoring value of ssl.verifyhost
* skipping SSL peer certificate verification
* SSL connection using SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
* Server certificate:
*   subject: CN=*.google.com,O=Google Inc,L=Mountain View,ST=California,C=US
*   start date: Jul 12 09:00:30 2013 GMT
*   expire date: Oct 31 23:59:59 2013 GMT
*   common name: *.google.com
*   issuer: CN=Google Internet Authority,O=Google Inc,C=US
> POST /feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.14.0.0 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
> Host: docs.google.com
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 0
> Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=*snip*
> GData-Version: 3.0
> Content-Type: application/x-tar
> Slug: icecast.tar
> 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Location: https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false&upload_id=AEnB2UoISsv6UkzrzkUs5MwLTobAYKQPPWFn0nVJdas9SVtUTOMk6rks66kuGTZ4kfixu05jlRf_x0ijmccdLcWgEj3vp3WlLw
< Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:18:03 GMT
< Server: HTTP Upload Server Built on Jul 24 2013 17:20:01 (1374711601)
< Content-Length: 0
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< 
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0* Connection #0 to host docs.google.com left intact

* Closing connection #0
+ uploadlink='https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false&upload_id=AEnB2UoISsv6Uk'rzkUs5MwLTobAYKQPPWFn0nVJdas9SVtUTOMk6rks66kuGTZ4kfixu05jlRf_x0ijmccdLcWgEj3vp3WlLw
+ /usr/bin/curl -Sv -k --request POST --data-binary @icecast.tar -H 'Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=*snip*' -H 'GData-Version: 3.0' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-tar' -H 'Slug: icecast.tar' 'https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false&upload_id=AEnB2UoISsv6UkzrzkUs5MwLTobAYKQPPWFn0nVJdas9SVtUTOMk6rks66kuGTZ4kfixu05jl'f_x0ijmccdLcWgEj3vp3WlLw
* About to connect() to docs.google.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 2607:f8b0:4008:803::1006... connected
* Connected to docs.google.com (2607:f8b0:4008:803::1006) port 443 (#0)
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
* warning: ignoring value of ssl.verifyhost
* skipping SSL peer certificate verification
* SSL connection using SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
* Server certificate:
*   subject: CN=*.google.com,O=Google Inc,L=Mountain View,ST=California,C=US
*   start date: Jul 12 09:00:30 2013 GMT
*   expire date: Oct 31 23:59:59 2013 GMT
*   common name: *.google.com
*   issuer: CN=Google Internet Authority,O=Google Inc,C=US
> POST /feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=false&upload_id=AEnB2UoISsv6UkzrzkUs5MwLTobAYKQPPWFn0nVJdas9 HTTP/1.1rks66kuGTZ4kfixu05jlRf_x0ijmccdLcWgEj3vp3WlLw
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.14.0.0 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
> Host: docs.google.com
> Accept: */*
> Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=*snip*
> GData-Version: 3.0
> Content-Type: application/x-tar
> Slug: icecast.tar
> Content-Length: 64307200
> Expect: 100-continue
> 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0 61.3M    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
} [data not shown]
100 61.3M    0     0  100 61.3M      0  2231k  0:00:28  0:00:28 --:--:-- 1883k< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8; type=entry
< Expires: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:18:33 GMT
< Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:18:33 GMT
< Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate, no-transform
< Vary: Accept, X-GData-Authorization, GData-Version
< GData-Version: 3.0
< ETag: "A1BVSgpOHCt7ImBk"
< Location: https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full/file%3A0BzpPZf0yXmAsa0dpRFBEU2o3MWs
< Content-Location: https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full/file%3A0BzpPZf0yXmAsa0dpRFBEU2o3MWs
< Content-Length: 3223
< Server: HTTP Upload Server Built on Jul 24 2013 17:20:01 (1374711601)
< 
{ [data not shown]
100 61.3M  100  3223  100 61.3M    112  2188k  0:00:28  0:00:28 --:--:-- 1561k* Connection #0 to host docs.google.com left intact

* Closing connection #0
[deanet@lumbung ~]$ 

maybe, you need make sure /etc/pki/tls/certs/ is readable.

thanks

How can I overwrite the file if there is existing one?

Hi,

Thanks a lot for this share guys, it helped me a lot.
I had hard time to make it works so i'll share my experience :
As /dev/stdout was not my default ouput, the script wasn't working for me. I'm not really experienced with bash scripts but i found a way working for me and i guess it will work in all cases. As a was updating the script, i also changed it to avoid file input/output on the system. You can see the new script below.

token=$(curl --data-urlencode Email=$username --data-urlencode Passwd=$password -d accountType=$accountype -d service=writely -d source=cURL "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" | grep Auth | cut -d \= -f 2)
link=$(curl -X POST -H "Content-Length: 0" -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" -H "GData-Version: 3.0" -H "Content-Type: $mimetype" -H "Slug: $file" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full/folder:$folderid/contents?convert=false" -D - | grep "Location:" | sed s/"Location: "//)
curl -X POST --data-binary "@$file" -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" -H "GData-Version: 3.0" -H "Content-Type: $mimetype" -H "Slug: $file" "$link" > /dev/null

evolution happens:

• automatically gleans MIME type from file
• uploads multiple files
• removes directory prefix from filename
• works with filenames with spaces
• uses dotfile for configuration and token
• interactively configuring
• uploads to target folder if last argument looks like a folder id
• quieter output
• uses longer command line flags for readability
• throttle by adding curl_args="--limit-rate 500K" to $HOME/.gdrive.conf

#!/bin/bash
# based on https://gist.github.com/deanet/3427090
#
# useful $HOME/.gdrive.conf options:
#    curl_args="--limit-rate 500K --progress-bar"


browser="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"

destination_folder_id=${@: -1}
if expr "$destination_folder_id" : '^[A-Za-z0-9]\{28\}$' > /dev/null
then
    # all but last word
    set -- "${@:0:$#}"
else
    # upload to root
    unset destination_folder_id
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.gdrive.conf ]
then
    . $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

old_umask=`umask`
umask 0077

if [ -z "$username" ]
then
    read -p "username: " username
    unset token
    echo "username=$username" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

if [ -z "$account_type" ]
then
    if expr "$username" : '^[^@]*$' > /dev/null || expr "$username" : '.*@gmail.com$' > /dev/null
    then
        account_type=GOOGLE
    else
        account_type=HOSTED
    fi
fi

if [ -z "$password$token" ]
then
    read -s -p "password: " password
    unset token
    echo
fi

if [ -z "$token" ]
then
    token=`curl --silent --data-urlencode Email=$username --data-urlencode Passwd="$password" --data accountType=$account_type --data service=writely --data source=cURL "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" | sed -ne s/Auth=//p`
    sed -ie '/^token=/d' $HOME/.gdrive.conf
    echo "token=$token" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi
umask $old_umask

for file in "$@"
do
    slug=`basename "$file"`
    mime_type=`file --brief --mime-type "$file"`
    upload_link=`curl --silent --show-error --insecure --request POST --header "Content-Length: 0" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full${destination_folder_id+/folder:$destination_folder_id/contents}?convert=false" --dump-header - | sed -ne s/"Location: "//p`
    echo "$file:"
    curl --request POST --output /dev/null --data-binary "@$file" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "$upload_link" $curl_args
done

Great work idiomatic works like a charm!

Since I am trying to update the same file with a csv.file evertime I need to find a way to avoid a new file is being created. Any tips would be appreciated.

Axel

I would like to thank the excellent work of all the people before me. Follows my little modifications, maybe someone could find them useful too:

• parameter to set google documents file conversion (very useful to me for big XLS files). Set to "false" if not necessary.
• small check to exclude the upload of the script itself (it happened to me when I use to set a destination folder, which is my common use case)

Unfortunately I am still trying to figure out how to avoid the file duplication, if someone discovers out to solve this small issue I will be very grateful :)

#!/bin/bash
# based on https://gist.github.com/deanet/3427090
#
# useful $HOME/.gdrive.conf options:
#    curl_args="--limit-rate 500K --progress-bar"


browser="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"
convert_to_googledocs="true"

destination_folder_id=${@: -1}
if expr "$destination_folder_id" : '^[A-Za-z0-9]\{28\}$' > /dev/null
then
    # all but last word
    set -- "${@:0:$#}"
else
    # upload to root
    unset destination_folder_id
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.gdrive.conf ]
then
    . $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

old_umask=`umask`
umask 0077

if [ -z "$username" ]
then
    read -p "username: " username
    unset token
    echo "username=$username" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

if [ -z "$account_type" ]
then
    if expr "$username" : '^[^@]*$' > /dev/null || expr "$username" : '.*@gmail.com$' > /dev/null
    then
        account_type=GOOGLE
    else
        account_type=HOSTED
    fi
fi

if [ -z "$password$token" ]
then
    read -s -p "password: " password
    unset token
    echo
fi

if [ -z "$token" ]
then
    token=`curl --silent --data-urlencode Email=$username --data-urlencode Passwd="$password" --data accountType=$account_type --data service=writely --data source=cURL "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" | sed -ne s/Auth=//p`
    sed -ie '/^token=/d' $HOME/.gdrive.conf
    echo "token=$token" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi
umask $old_umask

for file in "$@"
do
    if [ "$file" != "$0" ]
    then
        slug=`basename "$file"`
        mime_type=`file --brief --mime-type "$file"`
        upload_link=`curl --silent --show-error --insecure --request POST --header "Content-Length: 0" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full${destination_folder_id+/folder:$destination_folder_id/contents}?convert=$convert_to_googledocs" --dump-header - | sed -ne s/"Location: "//p`
        echo "$file:"
        curl --request POST --output /dev/null --data-binary "@$file" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "$upload_link" $curl_args
    fi
done

curl: (3) malformed

Drocsid: I had the same issue. When I looked at what was being returned, I was getting an authentication error because I have 2 factor authentication turned on. To get around this I have opted to create an application password for this script. Using that password and it all works fine again.

Updated the version by @andreapergola to use Zenity for username/passwords and upload progress making it cleaner to integrate via a nautilus action or similar. I had to use a trap to kill the curl command if the Zenity progress is cancelled, if anyone has a better solution please update

#!/bin/bash
# based on https://gist.github.com/deanet/3427090
#
# useful $HOME/.gdrive.conf options:
#    curl_args="--limit-rate 500K --progress-bar"

trap 'kill $(jobs -p)' EXIT

browser="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"
convert_to_googledocs="true"

destination_folder_id=${@: -1}
if expr "$destination_folder_id" : '^[A-Za-z0-9]\{28\}$' > /dev/null
then
    # all but last word
    set -- "${@:0:$#}"
else
    # upload to root
    unset destination_folder_id
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.gdrive.conf ]
then
    . $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

old_umask=`umask`
umask 0077

if [ -z "$username" ]
then
    ENTRY=`zenity --password --username --title="Drive Login"`

    case $? in
        1)
            exit
            ;;
        -1)
            exit
            ;;
    esac

    username=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d'|' -f1`
    password=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d'|' -f2`
    unset token
    echo "username=$username" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

if [ -z "$account_type" ]
then
    if expr "$username" : '^[^@]*$' > /dev/null || expr "$username" : '.*@gmail.com$' > /dev/null
    then
        account_type=GOOGLE
    else
        account_type=HOSTED
    fi
fi

if [ -z "$password$token" ]
then
    ENTRY=`zenity --password --title="Password" --text="Enter your Google Drive password"`
    password=$ENTRY

    case $? in
        1)
            exit
            ;;
        -1)
            exit
            ;;
    esac

    unset token
fi

if [ -z "$token" ]
then
    token=`curl --silent --data-urlencode Email=$username --data-urlencode Passwd="$password" --data accountType=$account_type --data service=writely --data source=cURL "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" | sed -ne s/Auth=//p`
    sed -ie '/^token=/d' $HOME/.gdrive.conf
    echo "token=$token" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi
umask $old_umask

for file in "$@"
do
    if [ "$file" != "$0" ]
    then
        slug=`basename "$file"`
        mime_type=`file --brief --mime-type "$file"`
        upload_link=`curl --silent --show-error --insecure --request POST --header "Content-Length: 0" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full${destination_folder_id+/folder:$destination_folder_id/contents}?convert=$convert_to_googledocs" --dump-header - | sed -ne s/"Location: "//p`
        echo "$file:"
        curl --request POST --output /dev/null --data-binary "@$file" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "$upload_link" $curl_args -# 2>&1 | stdbuf -oL tr '\r' '\n' | grep -o --line-buffered '[0-9]*\.[0-9]' | zenity --progress --title="Uploading..." --text="${file##*/}" --auto-close --auto-kill

        case $? in
            1)
                exit
                ;;
            -1)
                exit
                ;;
        esac
    fi
done

I've adapted (improved? You judge!) this script still further by allowing the destination_folder_id to be stored in the ~/.gdrive.conf file. I have written a HOWTO which describes how to use this tool as part of backing up medium-resolution family photos to Google Drive:

http://aoakley.com/articles/2014-09-12-photo-backup.php

One more thing that might help get this working:

You may need to enable access to less secure apps at this page.

Also, there's a problem with the various enhanced scripts on this page: in order to determine if the type is HOSTED or GOOGLE, they check the username (email) to see if it's a Gmail address. This is not correct because you can now use a non-Gmail account to set up a Google account; that's what I'm doing. I have a non-Gmail account with email hosted somewhere else, but I'm using Google's other services (Drive).

I think I am looking for this one. but I don't understand how to use these script. anyone explain?
Edit: OK, I got it now, great works.

Great script - but having a problem getting it to run properly on a raspberry PI.

Weird problem. When I run it I'm getting "curl: (3) Illegal characters found in URL" in the final curl in the definition of $upload_link.
If I then edit the script and replace $upload_link variable with the actual $upload_link string it runs fine.

For example:
curl --request POST --output /dev/null --data-binary "@$file" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "$upload_link" $curl_args

replaced with:

curl --request POST --output /dev/null --data-binary "@$file" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full?convert=true&upload_id=######" $curl_args

works fine.

Any ideas?

@nzbaxterman I ran into this problem too. The request to get the upload URL seems to have a line break in it now. Stripping that works for me:

upload_link = `curl ... | tr -d '\r\n'`

@kane-c tnx works for me

Nice work!

Anyone know how to avoid the file duplication?

Here have some info about how manage folders, could be nice get the list of folder names and overwrite the files to avoid duplication:

https://developers.google.com/drive/web/manage-uploads

Here have info about how make an update case the file exist:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/update

Here the author is using the new google drive api, where you can specify the 'uploadType':
http://codeseekah.com/tag/curl/
https://github.com/soulseekah/bash-utils/blob/master/google-drive-upload/upload.sh

I think we have elements to make a complete sync client in bash!

does this still works? I always get

https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps

when authenticating. Seems like Google deprecated this kind of authentication

@nicolabeghin it doesn't work anymore.

This code doesn't work anymore because google has enforced OAUTH 2.0.

Grive doesn't depend on Qt or Xorg.

Google enforcing OAuth this script doesn't work any more;
You will get a 404 on "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" when requesting the "${token}"

This one works fine with OAuth 2 : https://github.com/labbots/google-drive-upload

You will need an API client and secret : Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/ and create a "Google Drive" credential of type "OAuth client ID", sub type "other"

(Adding that here as this gist still popups first on google search)

evolution happens:

* automatically gleans MIME type from file

* uploads multiple files

* removes directory prefix from filename

* works with filenames with spaces

* uses dotfile for configuration and token

* interactively configuring

* uploads to target folder if last argument looks like a folder id

* quieter output

* uses longer command line flags for readability

* throttle by adding `curl_args="--limit-rate 500K"` to $HOME/.gdrive.conf

#!/bin/bash
# based on https://gist.github.com/deanet/3427090
#
# useful $HOME/.gdrive.conf options:
#    curl_args="--limit-rate 500K --progress-bar"


browser="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"

destination_folder_id=${@: -1}
if expr "$destination_folder_id" : '^[A-Za-z0-9]\{28\}$' > /dev/null
then
    # all but last word
    set -- "${@:0:$#}"
else
    # upload to root
    unset destination_folder_id
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.gdrive.conf ]
then
    . $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

old_umask=`umask`
umask 0077

if [ -z "$username" ]
then
    read -p "username: " username
    unset token
    echo "username=$username" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi

if [ -z "$account_type" ]
then
    if expr "$username" : '^[^@]*$' > /dev/null || expr "$username" : '.*@gmail.com$' > /dev/null
    then
        account_type=GOOGLE
    else
        account_type=HOSTED
    fi
fi

if [ -z "$password$token" ]
then
    read -s -p "password: " password
    unset token
    echo
fi

if [ -z "$token" ]
then
    token=`curl --silent --data-urlencode Email=$username --data-urlencode Passwd="$password" --data accountType=$account_type --data service=writely --data source=cURL "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" | sed -ne s/Auth=//p`
    sed -ie '/^token=/d' $HOME/.gdrive.conf
    echo "token=$token" >> $HOME/.gdrive.conf
fi
umask $old_umask

for file in "$@"
do
    slug=`basename "$file"`
    mime_type=`file --brief --mime-type "$file"`
    upload_link=`curl --silent --show-error --insecure --request POST --header "Content-Length: 0" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "https://docs.google.com/feeds/upload/create-session/default/private/full${destination_folder_id+/folder:$destination_folder_id/contents}?convert=false" --dump-header - | sed -ne s/"Location: "//p`
    echo "$file:"
    curl --request POST --output /dev/null --data-binary "@$file" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${token}" --header "GData-Version: 3.0" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Slug: $slug" "$upload_link" $curl_args
done

Still working, great !