Google Drive download in Colab, with wget and gdown

drive_download.py

# already a few gists about this. But here seems to be a few easier methods
# from github.com/hzwer/LearningToPaint/blob/master/LearningToPaint.ipynb

# wget export=download
!wget "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1-7dVdjCIZIxh8hHJnGTK-RA1-jL1tor4" -O renderer.pkl
!wget https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7EVK8r0v71pZjFTYXZWM3FlRnM --content-disposition
# gdown auto detect filename
!gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7EVK8r0v71pZjFTYXZWM3FlRnM
!gdown --id 0B7EVK8r0v71pZjFTYXZWM3FlRnM
gdown.download('https://drive.google.com/uc?id=' + fid, None, True) # auto, quiet

# gdown rename
!gdown --id 1qDo_HqTAkx8W6HM5uIx25s0xOXLR2r3U -O out.pdf

# version 4.4+
!gdown 1l_5RK28JRL19wpT22B-DY9We3TVXnnQQ
!gdown https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15uNXeRBIhVvZJIhL4yTw4IsStMhUaaxl -O /tmp/folder --folder

gdown.py

# for limited sharing only to your friends
def auth_drive():
  from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
  from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
  from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials as GC
  from google.colab import auth
  auth.authenticate_user()
  gauth = GoogleAuth()
  gauth.credentials = GC.get_application_default()
  return GoogleDrive(gauth)

def gdown(fid):
  drive = auth_drive()
  f = drive.CreateFile({'id':fid})
  f.FetchMetadata(fetch_all=True)
  f.GetContentFile(f.metadata['title'])
  return f.metadata['title']