Google drive and authorized HTTP GET for downloading a file

Question

I develop application for Google Drive. I have problem with downloading files. Official doc describes this process with next words: \"To download a file\'s content, send an auth

Answer 1

To download the file's content, you will need to use an OAuth 2.0 access token in an authorized HTTP request such as:

GET <dowloadUrl>
Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>

You can try this with curl by using a command such as:

curl <downloadUrl> -H 'Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>'

If you want to be able to download the file from a web browser using cookie authentication (using the cookies of the currently logged-in user), you should use the webContentLink instead.