Download Google Drive files from linux terminal via wget

gdrive_download.md

Setup:

1. Add this code to your ~/.bash_aliases file.

function gdrive_download () {
  CONFIRM=$(wget --quiet --save-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=$1" -O- | sed -rn 's/.*confirm=([0-9A-Za-z_]+).*/\1\n/p')
  wget --load-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=$CONFIRM&id=$1" -O $2
  rm -rf /tmp/cookies.txt
}

2. Open new bash session.

Usage:

gdrive_download long_google_drive_file_id filename.ext

@AbnerCode can you please give more details about your error? what's the console output?

Sometimes there's no confirmation needed such as a PDF file.

why it is not work ?
the error information is the bash command not found

Did you install wget?

I replace "docs.google.com" with "drive.google.com", and it works well for me. Thanks a lot!