Python: download files from google drive using url

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If by “drive’s url” you mean the shareable link of a file on Google Drive, then the following might help:

import requests

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 = get_confirm_token(response)

    if token:
        params = { 'id' : id, 'confirm' : token }
        response = session.get(URL, params = params, stream = True)

    save_response_content(response, destination)    

def get_confirm_token(response):
    for key, value in response.cookies.items():
        if key.startswith('download_warning'):
            return value

    return None

def save_response_content(response, destination):
    CHUNK_SIZE = 32768

    with open(destination, "wb") as f:
        for chunk in response.iter_content(CHUNK_SIZE):
            if chunk: # filter out keep-alive new chunks
                f.write(chunk)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    file_id = 'TAKE ID FROM SHAREABLE LINK'
    destination = 'DESTINATION FILE ON YOUR DISK'
    download_file_from_google_drive(file_id, destination)

The snipped does not use pydrive, nor the Google Drive SDK, though. It uses the requests module (which is, somehow, an alternative to urllib2).

When downloading large files from Google Drive, a single GET request is not sufficient. A second one is needed – see wget/curl large file from google drive.

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