gdrive is a command line application for interacting with Google Drive. This is the successor of gdrive2, though at the moment only the most basic functionality is implemented.
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Help keep this project alive. By sponsoring the gdrive tier you will help support:
- Keeping up with api changes
- Development of new features
- Fixing and answering of issues
- Writing of guides and docs
- Google OAuth Client credentials, see docs
- Download the latest binary from the release section
- Unpack and put the binary somewhere in your PATH (i.e.
/usr/local/binon linux and macos) - Note that the binary is not code signed and will cause a warning on windows and macos when running. This will be fixed later, but for now you can find a workaround via you favorite search engine.
- Run
gdrive account add - This will prompt you for your google Client ID and Client Secret (see Requirements)
- Next you will be presented with an url
- Follow the url and give approval for gdrive to access your Drive
- You will be redirected to
http://localhost:8085(gdrive starts a temporary web server) which completes the setup - Gdrive is now ready to use!
Part of the flow for adding an account to gdrive requires your web browser to access localhost:8085 on the machine that runs gdrive.
This makes it tricky to set up accounts on remote servers. The suggested workaround is to add the account to you local machine first
and then copy the configuration to the remote server. A account export and account import function will be added later
to simplify this process.