file download from google drive to colaboratory

Question

I was trying to download file from my google drive to colaboratory.

file_id = \'1uBtlaggVyWshwcyP6kEI-y_W3P8D26sz\'

import io
from googleapiclient.http import M         


        

Answer 1

You need to define a drive API service client to interact with the Google drive API, for instance:

from googleapiclient.discovery import build
drive_service = build('drive', 'v3')

(see the notebook External data: Drive, Sheets, and Cloud Storage/Drive REST API)

Answer 2

I recommend you use Pydrive to download your file from google drive. I download 500MB dataset for 5s. 1. install Pydrive

!pip install PyDrive

2. OAouth

from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive

gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()

drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)

3. code for download file from google drive

fileId = drive.CreateFile({'id': 'DRIVE_FILE_ID'}) #DRIVE_FILE_ID is file id example: 1iytA1n2z4go3uVCwE_vIKouTKyIDjEq
print fileId['title']  # UMNIST.zip
fileId.GetContentFile('UMNIST.zip')  # Save Drive file as a local file

Cheer Mo Jihad

Answer 3

No installing/importing any library. Just put your file id at the end.

!gdown --id yourFileIdHere

Note: at the time of writing gdown library is preinstalled on colab.

Answer 4

Step 1

!pip install -U -q PyDrive

Step 2

from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
from google.colab import auth
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials
# Authenticate and create the PyDrive client.
# This only needs to be done once per notebook.
auth.authenticate_user()
gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.credentials = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)

Step3

file_id = '17Cp4ZxCYGzWNypZo1WPiIz20x06xgPAt' # URL id. 
downloaded = drive.CreateFile({'id': file_id})
downloaded.GetContentFile('shaurya.txt')

Step4

!ls #to verify content

OR

import os
print(os.listdir())

Answer 5

You can also use my implementations on google.colab and PyDrive at https://github.com/ruelj2/Google_drive which makes it a lot easier.

!pip install - U - q PyDrive  
import os  
os.chdir('/content/')  
!git clone https://github.com/ruelj2/Google_drive.git  

from Google_drive.handle import Google_drive  
Gd = Google_drive()  
Gd.load_file(local_dir, file_ID)

Answer 6

Here's an easy way to get by. You may either use wget command or requests module in Python to get the job done.

# find the share link of the file/folder on Google Drive
file_share_link = "https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_URf9ZWjAW7SC11Xzc4R2d0N2c"

# extract the ID of the file
file_id = file_share_link[file_share_link.find("=") + 1:]

# append the id to this REST command
file_download_link = "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=" + file_id 

The string in file_download_link can be pasted in the browser address bar to get the download dialog box directly.

If you use the wget command:

!wget -O ebook.pdf --no-check-certificate "$file_download_link"