And we're trying really hard not to forget. Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Timetm). government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data - legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. Answer adapted from my similar answer over there.We are digital librarians.

Source: A comment by Tobi in a question. There is no progress indicator, but you can observe the progress in a file manager or second terminal. For that, it will show you a link which you have to visit in a browser, and then you will get a verification code to copy&paste back to the tool. gdrive download -recursive 0B7_OwkDsUIgFWXA1B2FPQfV5S8HĪt first usage, the tool will need to obtain access permissions to the Google Drive API. Of course, use your folder's ID instead in the following command. That's the folder's ID.ĭownload the folder. Obtain the string behind the last / and copy it to your clipboard. Now look at the URL in the browser's address bar, it will show something like. For that, go inside the folder to download, using the web client. sudo cp gdrive-linux-圆4 /usr/local/bin/gdrive ĭetermine the Google Drive folder's ID. Choose the one that fits your architecture, for example gdrive-linux-圆4.Ĭopy it to your path. You can use the open source Linux / Unix command line tool gdrive.ĭownload the binary. You may still be able to access the file from the browser: Still can't access a file after 24 hours, contact your domain

Take up to 24 hours to be able to view or download the file.

If the file you are trying toĪccess is particularly large or is shared with many people, it may Note that if one uses gdown more than ~20 times within 24 hours (might depend on the file size), we get the error:Īccess denied with the following error: Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. Gshell download spam.txt # download file -> you could script to download all files listed by gshell ll To download 1 folder: gshell init # log in to your Google account To download 1 public large file from Google Drive (5 GB): # syntax: gdown

gshell: Navigate in Google Drive as you do on shell (gshell = Google Drive + Shell).

gdown: Download a large file public from Google Drive (curl/wget fails due to security notice).

2 useful Python programs (require: sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip):

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