gdrive

Overview

gdrive is a command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.

Important

1. Enable https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/google/drive.googleapis.com
2. https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials and application type to be Desktop App give some name
3. In "OAuth consent screen" https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials/consent
4. Clock add/remove scopes and then add https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file scope
5. It becomes non-sensitive
6. Set: User type to External and publish
7. Get the values for clientId and clientSecret
8. For Go-preinstalled linux VM use: https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard?cloudshell=true or install go version go1.19.1 linux/amd64 from https://go.dev/doc/install

Download and compile

1. git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/carstentrink/gdrive
2. cd gdrive
3. Just edit the clientId and clientSecret in the file compile.
4. ./compile
5. The binaries are located inside gdrive/bin folder
6. ./gdrive_linux_amd64 about

./bin/gdrive_linux_amd64 about
Authentication needed
Go to the following url in your browser:
http://127.0.0.1:45137/authorize

Waiting for authentication response

7. Open a browser at the URL
8. For remote linux boxes just do the authentication locally and copy the linux binary and ~/.config/gdrive/USERNAME_v2.json to the remote box.

examples

gdrive list --no-header  -m 50  --query "( ( visibility = 'anyoneCanFind' or visibility = 'anyoneWithLink' or visibility = 'domainCanFind' or visibility = 'domainWithLink' or visibility = 'limited' ) and (mimeType != 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder') ) and trashed = false and '1ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSQTUVWXYZ'  in parents"
gdrive list --query "( ( visibility = 'anyoneCanFind' or visibility = 'anyoneWithLink' or visibility = 'domainCanFind' or visibility = 'domainWithLink' or visibility = 'limited' ) ) and trashed = false and '1ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSQTUVWXYZ'  in parents"
gdrive list --query " ( "starred" and (mimeType != 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder') )"
gdrive list --query " (  (mimeType != 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder') and (viewedByMeTime > '2023-02-03T12:00:00-08:00') )"
gdrive list --order 'modifiedTime desc'  --query "'1ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSQTUVWXYZ'  in parents"