gdown.pl

Google Drive direct download of big files

Requirements

wget and Perl must be in the PATH.
Windows and linux compatible.

Usage

Use Google Drive shareable links, viewable by anyone:

$ ./gdown.pl 'gdrive file url' ['desired file name']   

Example

For example, to download this video from my axolotl project, just copy the url, and give a file name if desired:

$ ./gdown.pl https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1L_hFrWJfRhLUJZdXdSdTdfSWs/edit axolotl.mp4   

Resuming a download

If you need to resume a download, please, use gdown.pl v2.0 here.
As long as a file name is indicated as second parameter, gdown.pl v2.0 will try to resume the partially downloaded file if a local incomplete file with that name already exists.

Version

This version is v1.4.

Warning

Please, note that v1.2 (available between days 12 to 31 of Jan/2019) should not be used, as it contains a bug that could result in unusable downloaded files. Proceed to overwrite with v1.4 in case you have it.

Docker

A simple Docker file is provided, to build a simple Docker image with gdown.pl.
This has been used for pre-pulling data from a Google Drive to Kubernetes persistent volumes.
Thanks @anton-khodak

Singularity

An example Singularity file is provided.
Build the container: sudo singularity build (imagename) Singularity

Run the container: singularity run (imagename) (gdown.pl args)

Thanks to @ttbrunner

License

Distributed under GPL 3

Disclaimer

This software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

More info

https://circulosmeos.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/google-drive-direct-download-of-big-files

Contact

by circulosmeos