Kevin Ke-Yun Lin kevinlin311tw

csik / gdrive_dl.py

Last active November 4, 2020 05:11

Download Large Files from Google Drive

	from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
	from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive

	"""API calls to download a very large google drive file. The drive API only allows downloading to ram
	(unlike, say, the Requests library's streaming option) so the files has to be partially downloaded
	and chunked. Authentication requires a google api key, and a local download of client_secrets.json

	Thanks to Radek for the key functions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27617258/memoryerror-how-to-download-large-file-via-google-drive-sdk-using-python
	"""