Wget Google Drive Files Without Internet

You can download files from Google Drive without an internet connection, but you need to use a tool that can access the files offline.

Wget is one such tool that can help you achieve this.

To use Wget, you first need to download the file from Google Drive while you have an internet connection.

This will create a local copy of the file on your computer.

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To download a Google Drive file using wget, start by sharing the file and making sure it's under 100MB. If the file is larger, the command will be more complex.

The key is to figure out the long-name of the file from the shared link. This can be done by copying the link and extracting the file name, which is the long string of characters after the '/d/' in the URL.

Construct the wget command based on the extracted file name and the blog information. Remember to place a '!' before wget in a Colab Jupyter notebook, as access to the system requires it.

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Use the wget command to download the file, specifying the file name and the URL with the 'export=download' and 'id=' parameters. The file will be downloaded to the local, temporary disk on the Colab cloud-based system.

For example, if the file name is '1AnsoyBESGSYzRvbMQh5-FWJdgtTo_gOj', the wget command would be: !wget --no-check-certificate 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1AnsoyBESGSYzRvbMQh5-FWJdgtTo_gOj' -O 'Kijij Listings - edited.xlsx'.

For another approach, see: File Request for Google Drive

Transferring files between clouds can be a challenge, especially when working with Google Drive. You can share files between users, but accessing them from a command line can be tricky.

The default access to a shared file is via a web browser graphical interface, which makes it difficult to download files using utilities like wget. The author of a script may not have to worry about transferring files if they're already in the author's Google Drive folder.

To download a shared Google Drive file using wget, you need to use a specific command. For small files, you can run the following command on your terminal:

For another approach, see: Using Usb Drive to Sync Google Drive

However, keep in mind that any link to a shared file is designed for browser interaction, not direct download. This can result in an HTML front page being downloaded instead of the actual file.

If you need to download a large file, you may encounter issues like the one mentioned in the example, where the script downloaded extra bytes of HTML header before the actual file. In such cases, you may need to perform a dd with skip to remove the unwanted data.