Once successfully installed, authorize google-drive-ocamlfuse client with your desired Google account using the following command.
$ sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse To install the Ocamlfuse run the following commands in that order $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
Installing Google Drive Ocamlfuse on Ubuntu 18.04
Right click on the file you want to download from is a FUSE-based file system backed by Google Drive. # sudo python3.6 -m pip install -upgrade youtube_dl Or install it with pip: sudo python2.7 -m pip install -upgrade youtube_dl To download the file first get youtube-dl for python from here: Then you copy the file id and create a linke that look like this: So for example when you share a file on google drive publicly the sharelink looks like this: Share the URL that looks like "id] where is replaced by the document ID you copied in step 6.The document ID is a string of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers between slashes in the URL.
As of November 2021, this link will be of the form: # Files You can find this ID by right-clicking on the file of interest, and selecting Get link. The file_id should look something like 0Bz8a_Dbh9QhbNU3SGlFaDg. Gdown -folder -id # this format works for folders tooĮxample: to download the readme file from this directory gdown Install it with the following command: pip install gdownĪfter that, you can download any file from Google Drive by running one of these commands: gdown # for files Consider also visiting that page for full instructions this is just a summary and the source repo may have more up-to-date instructions. One of the links I visited suggested &confirm=no_antivirus but that's not working. I notice on the third-to-last line in the link, there a &confirm=JwkK which is a random 4 character string but suggests there's a way to add a confirmation to my URL. When I run the same on the other file, curl -L "" > Here's how I got the first file working - curl -L "" > phlat-1.0.tar.gz Could someone help me get past that screen? I got the UIDs of the files and the smaller one (1.6MB) downloads fine, however the larger file (3.7GB) always redirects to a page which asks me whether I want to proceed with the download without a virus scan. I've looked online extensively and I finally managed to get one of them to download. The files I'm trying to download are here. I'm trying to download a file from google drive in a script, and I'm having a little trouble doing so.