Google Drive CLI
A command line interface to download/upload files to your google drive from the command line. Built with Python 3 (v3.6.9) on top of PyDrive and the Google Drive API, as of March/2021.
Setting up
Clone or donwload this repository and go to its folder from the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/tiagodc/GoogleDriveCLI.git
cd GoogleDriveCLI
Be sure to have python 3.x installed and install all dependencies (or setup a virtualenv):
pip install -r requirements.txt
# or
conda install --file requirements.txt
Activate your google developer account and enable OAuth authentication. For a quick guide click here.
If it's your first time using the API and you don't have a credentials file, download the client_secrets.json file from your developer account (also in the guide. Then try to download/upload some files from/to your drive:
python gdrive.py --directory path/to/local/directory --parent #yourGoogleDriveFolderIdHash --auth path/to/client_secrets.json --credentials path/to/creentials.json [...]
Your google drive folder ID is the hash found at the end of the URL once you've browsed to the folder you want (highlighted):
A link will be shown on your terminal, just click on it to open the browser and follow the screen. On the first time you run the script the --credentials file will be created in the path you provide, otherwise it will create a mycreds.json file in the current directory. Save this file somewhere safe and use it from now on from any computer/server (no need for client_secrets.json anymore).
To see all command line arguments available execute python gdrive.py --help. Pro tip: use -m -r to copy the entire file tree as is between your drive and local file system and -t to enable parallel download/uploads and speed up the transfer.
Enjoy!