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fuzzmonkey/download_google_drive.rb

Created October 1, 2017 14:30
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Ruby script for downloading a file from google drive given a public file id
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download_google_drive.rb
# usuage ruby download_google_drive.rb <FILE ID>
fileid = ARGV[0]
confirm_code = `wget --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=#{fileid}' -O- | sed -rn 's/.*confirm=([0-9A-Za-z_]+).*/\\1\/p'`
`wget --load-cookies cookies.txt 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=#{confirm_code}&id=#{fileid}'`
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