PyDrive allows you to download a file with the function GetContentFile(). You can find the function's documentation here.
See example below:
# Initialize GoogleDriveFile instance with file id.
file_obj = drive.CreateFile({'id': '<your file ID here>'})
file_obj.GetContentFile('cats.png') # Download file as 'cats.png'.
This code assumes that you have an authenticated drive object, the docs on this can be found here and here.
In the general case this is done like so:
from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
gauth = GoogleAuth()
# Create local webserver which automatically handles authentication.
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
# Create GoogleDrive instance with authenticated GoogleAuth instance.
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)
Info on silent authentication on a server can be found here and involves writing a settings.yaml (example: here) in which you save the authentication details.
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.
Having had similar needs many times, I made an extra simple class GoogleDriveDownloader starting on the snippet from @user115202 above. You can find the source code here.
You can also install it through pip:
pip install googledrivedownloader
Then usage is as simple as:
from google_drive_downloader import GoogleDriveDownloader as gdd
gdd.download_file_from_google_drive(file_id='1iytA1n2z4go3uVCwE__vIKouTKyIDjEq',
dest_path='./data/mnist.zip',
unzip=True)
This snippet will download an archive shared in Google Drive. In this case 1iytA1n2z4go3uVCwE__vIKouTKyIDjEq is the id of the sharable link got from Google Drive.
# Importing [PyDrive][1] OAuth
from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
def download_tracking_file_by_id(file_id, download_dir):
gauth = GoogleAuth(settings_file='../settings.yaml')
# Try to load saved client credentials
gauth.LoadCredentialsFile("../credentials.json")
if gauth.credentials is None:
# Authenticate if they're not there
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
elif gauth.access_token_expired:
# Refresh them if expired
gauth.Refresh()
else:
# Initialize the saved creds
gauth.Authorize()
# Save the current credentials to a file
gauth.SaveCredentialsFile("../credentials.json")
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)
logger.debug("Trying to download file_id " + str(file_id))
file6 = drive.CreateFile({'id': file_id})
file6.GetContentFile(download_dir+'mapmob.zip')
zipfile.ZipFile(download_dir + 'test.zip').extractall(UNZIP_DIR)
tracking_data_location = download_dir + 'test.json'
return tracking_data_location
The above function downloads the file given the file_id to a specified downloads folder. Now the question remains, how to get the file_id? Simply split the url by id= to get the file_id.
And download the file, here is the sample code to download
from googleDriveFileDownloader import googleDriveFileDownloader
a = googleDriveFileDownloader()
a.downloadFile("https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1O4x8rwGJAh8gRo8sjm0kuKFf6vCEm93G&export=download")
Here's an easy way to do it with no third-party libraries and a service account.
pip install google-api-core and google-api-python-client
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from googleapiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload
from google.oauth2 import service_account
import io
credz = {} #put json credentials her from service account or the like
# More info: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_info(credz)
drive_service = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=credentials)
file_id = '0BwwA4oUTeiV1UVNwOHItT0xfa2M'
request = drive_service.files().get_media(fileId=file_id)
#fh = io.BytesIO() # this can be used to keep in memory
fh = io.FileIO('file.tar.gz', 'wb') # this can be used to write to disk
downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)
done = False
while done is False:
status, done = downloader.next_chunk()
print("Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100))