Merrick919/classroom-files-downloader

A script that automates downloading Google Classroom files and organizes them each in their appropriate folder.

classroom-files-downloader

Description

A script that automates downloading Google Classroom files and organizes them each in their appropriate folder.

Requirements

• Python
• Pip

Usage

1. Download the 2 json files containing the credentials. They are generated by activating the APIs, you will need to enable 2 APIs:

   • Google Classroom API: https://developers.google.com/classroom/quickstart/python
   • Google Drive API: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/python

2. Rename the 2 files:

   • Rename the file associated with the Google Classroom API to "credentials-classroom.json"
   • Rename the file associated with the Google Drive API to "credentials-drive.json"

3. Run the command:

   pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

4. Choose the number of courses to download, you can set this by editing a variable value in the script:

   • Open the automating.py file in any text editor
   • Search for (CTRL + F) the word "pageSize"
   • Change the value of that variable to how many courses you want to download, it works by the newest to oldest order.

5. Run the script:

   python automating.py