A python scripts that uses Google Drive API to download folders or files.

1. Git clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/Techyhans/google-api-scraping.git

2. Create an Python 3.8.5 >= environment:

conda create -n gdrive-api python=3.10.9
conda activate gdrive-api

3. Install required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Open Google Console and write Google Drive API to search bar. Click Create Credentials / OAuth Client ID then create your project. After download your client_secretXXX.json file and save it as "client_secret.json"

You may state two arguments to run the download.py.

• '-l' or '--link': One or more files or folders sharable link you would like to download (Must be given)
• '-i' or '--id': One or more files or folders ID you would like to download (Must be given)
• '-n' or '--name': One or more folder names you would like to search and download in given parent folder ID (Optional)."

For example:

• To download a folder with all items it contains, specifying its sharable links as below:

python download.py -l https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZKWjVjYAgjKbLYviQFCwT0HfuDwGweCq/view?usp=share_link

• To download multiple folders:

python download.py -i DRIVE_LINK1 DRIVE_LINK2 ...

• If you want to download a file only. Also, you only have to provide the ID.

• To search folder with folder name folder_1 under the parent folder with given ID:

python download.py -i DRIVE_LINK -n folder_1

This would only download the folder_1 folder with all its content. You may specific multiple IDs and names.

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