Direct download from Google Drive using Google Drive API

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My desktop application, written in java, tries to download public files from Google Drive. As i found out, it can be implemented by using file's webContentLink (it's for ability to download public files without user authorization).

So, the code below works with small files:

String webContentLink = aFile.getWebContentLink();
InputStream in = new URL(webContentLink).openStream();

But it doesn't work on big files, because in this case file can't be downloaded directly via webContentLink without user confirmation with google virus scan warning. See an example: web content link.

So my question is how to get content of a public file from Google Drive without user authorization?

google-drive-api java
15 Answers

Update as of August 2020:

This is what worked for me recently -

Upload your file and get a shareable link which anyone can see(Change permission from "Restricted" to "Anyone with the Link" in the share link options)

Then run:

 SHAREABLE_LINK=<google drive shareable link>
 curl -L https://drive.google.com/uc\?id\=$(echo $SHAREABLE_LINK | cut -f6 -d"/")
user_25761530

Check this out:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/circulosmeos/gdown.pl/master/gdown.pl
chmod +x gdown.pl
./gdown.pl https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE_ID/view TARGET_PATH
user_135713570

For any shared link replace FILENAME and FILEID, (for very large files requiring confirmation):

wget --load-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=$(wget --quiet --save-cookies /tmp/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\n/p')&id=FILEID" -O FILENAME && rm -rf /tmp/cookies.txt

(For small files): wget --no-check-certificate 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID' -O FILENAME

user_88887130

I faced an issue in direct download because I was logged in using multiple Google accounts. Solution is append authUser=0 parameter. Sample request URL to download :https://drive.google.com/uc?id=FILEID&authuser=0&export=download

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