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A script for downloading all files in a Google Drive folder.
"""
A Python script for downloading all files under a folder in Google Drive.
Downloaded files will be saved at the current working directory.
This script uses the official Google Drive API (https://developers.google.com/drive).
As the examples in the official doc are not very clear to me,
so I thought sharing this script would be helpful for someone.
To use this script, you should first follow the instruction
in Quickstart section in the official doc (https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/python):
- Enable Google Drive API
- Download `credential.json`
- Install dependencies
Notes:
- This script will only work on a local environment,
i.e. you can't run this on a remote machine
because of the authentication process of Google.
- This script only downloads binary files not google docs or spreadsheets.
Author: Sangwoong Yoon (https://github.com/swyoon/)
"""
import io
import pickle
import os.path
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from googleapiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
'''Configuration'''
# ID of the folder to be downloaded.
# ID can be obtained from the URL of the folder
FOLDER_ID = '1JaaNdyfeVhMvzwCphpS2qyBj7pSqoAqb' # an example folder
# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.
# SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly']
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly']
def main():
"""Download all files in the specified folder in Google Drive."""
creds = None
# The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
# created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
# time.
if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
creds = pickle.load(token)
# If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
if not creds or not creds.valid:
if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
creds.refresh(Request())
else:
flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
'credentials.json', SCOPES)
creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
# Save the credentials for the next run
with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
pickle.dump(creds, token)
service = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)
page_token = None
while True:
# Call the Drive v3 API
results = service.files().list(
q=f"'{FOLDER_ID}' in parents",
pageSize=10, fields="nextPageToken, files(id, name)",
pageToken=page_token).execute()
items = results.get('files', [])
if not items:
print('No files found.')
else:
for item in items:
print(u'{0} ({1})'.format(item['name'], item['id']))
file_id = item['id']
request = service.files().get_media(fileId=file_id)
with open(item['name'], 'wb') as fh:
downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)
done = False
while done is False:
status, done = downloader.next_chunk()
print("Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100))
page_token = results.get('nextPageToken', None)
if page_token is None:
break
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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