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Created January 4, 2018 02:02
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Google Drive file downloader for Python, with progress bar with tqdm. Based on this SO answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/39225039/3175094
#!/usr/bin/env python2
import requests
from tqdm import tqdm
import re
import os
def download_file_from_google_drive(id, destination):
URL = 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download'
session = requests.Session()
response = session.get(URL, params = { 'id' : id }, stream = True)
token = None
for key, value in response.cookies.items():
if key.startswith('download_warning'):
token = value
break
if token:
params = { 'id' : id, 'confirm' : token }
response = session.get(URL, params = params, stream = True)
CHUNK_SIZE = 32*1024
# TODO: this doesn't seem to work; there's no Content-Length value in header?
total_size = int(response.headers.get('content-length', 0))
with tqdm(desc=destination, total=total_size, unit='B', unit_scale=True) as pbar:
with open(destination, 'wb') as f:
for chunk in response.iter_content(CHUNK_SIZE):
if chunk:
pbar.update(CHUNK_SIZE)
f.write(chunk)
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
executable = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
print 'Usage: [python] %s {DRIVE_FILE_ID_OR_URL} {DESTINATION_FILE_PATH}' % executable
else:
# TAKE ID FROM SHAREABLE LINK
if sys.argv[1].startswith('https://'):
file_id = re.match(r'[?&]id=([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)').group(1)
else:
file_id = sys.argv[1]
# DESTINATION FILE ON YOUR DISK
destination = sys.argv[2]
download_file_from_google_drive(file_id, destination) ​
@baiyfbupt
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It seems not work any more. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6eKvaijfFUDQUUwd21EckhUbWs/view this file will return port=443 Max retries exceed.

@emiliovfx
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You can get the size of the file from the api by quering from the fileid the filesize.

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