Google drive limit number of download

download limit google-drive-api
simon picture simon · May 31, 2013 · Viewed 109.7k times · Source

I have obtain the download url via webContentLink (https://docs.google.com/a/onwardsct.com/uc?id=0ByvXJAlpPqQPYWNqY0V3MGs0Ujg&export=download)

During testing, I try to download 28 times (testing) the same 24mb file using 3 different Google accounts that is allow to access the file

On the 29th time, it fail with the below message

Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time.
Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. Please try accessing the file again later. If the file you are trying to access is particularly large or is shared with many people, it may take up to 24 hours to be able to view or download the file. If you still can't access a file after 24 hours, contact your domain administrator.

However I still can download using the same URL if I'm login as the content owner of the document.

Anyone any idea how to overcome or there is a limit impose by Google drive on number of download permissible for any single file in a day.

Simon

Answer

Victor Sharovatov picture Victor Sharovatov · Sep 23, 2014

It looks like that this limitation can be avoided if you use the following URL pattern:

https://googledrive.com/host/file-id

For your case the download URL will look like this - https://googledrive.com/host/0ByvXJAlpPqQPYWNqY0V3MGs0Ujg

Please keep in mind that this method works only if file is shared with "Public on the web" option.

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