Code snippet to transform a Google Drive link to a directly accessible URL (2023)

google-drive-link-transform.m

// Try transforming a shared link from Google Drive to a Google Drive raw link.
//
// Caveat - this is to show what needs replacing - ideally the replace should be done via REGEX or similar if more flexibility is needed.
// MIT license - Copyright Andrew Kingdom 2023 all rights reserved.
//
//
- (void)example {
  
    NSString serverDataURLString = @"...yourgoogledriveurl...";
    
    serverDataURLString = [serverDataURLString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:
                           @"https://drive.google.com/file/d/" withString:
                           @"https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id="];
    serverDataURLString = [serverDataURLString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:
                           @"/view?usp=share_link" withString:
                           @""];
    // ...do something...
}