How to download files from Google Drive through terminal

Tool

The easiest way that works for me

• pip install gdown
• gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=file_id

The file_id should look something like 0B7pQmm-OfDv7SHFadHR4RllfR1E

You can get it by right-clicking on the file and then Get shareable link. Tested on open access files. I’m not sure whether it works for the directory.

Just remove export=download& from gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=your_file_id and It works like a charm.

Trick:

https://drive.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B7pQmm-OfDv7SHFadHR4RllfR1E&export=download

OR

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7pQmm-OfDv7SHFadHR4RllfR1E&export=download

Convert them to

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7pQmm-OfDv7SHFadHR4RllfR1E

For Example: 

$ gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7pQmm-OfDv7SHFadHR4RllfR1EDownloading...From: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7pQmm-OfDv7SHFadHR4RllfR1ETo: /home/rahul.patel/pointer-generator/pretrained_model_tf1.0.zip194MB [00:05, 32.7MB/s]