I have tried a number of ways to download files from google drive via oauth and the API, however I am not able to get the files downloaded. I believe I have properly authenticated. After running my code, it looks like there was success with downloading the file (no errors), but no files were downloaded.
This is the code I have tried so far:
def download_file(file_id, mimeType):
if "google-apps" in mimeType:
return
request = drive_service.files().get(fileId=file_id)
fh = io.BytesIO()
downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)
done = False
while done is False:
status, done = downloader.next_chunk()
print "Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100)
However, this results in "Download 100%." being printed to the console, but no file downloaded.
I have also tried:
def download2(download_url):
resp, content = drive_service._http.request(download_url)
if resp.status == 200:
print 'Status: %s' % resp
return content
else:
print 'An error occurred: %s' % resp
return None
This also does not produce a downloaded file, but it does give me a 200 message.
Both of these seem like they are properly making contact with the API. Is there an additional step I have to do to actually get the files on my computer?
Edit:
this was the remainder of my code:
import json
import webbrowser
import httplib2
import io
from apiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload
from apiclient import discovery
from oauth2client import client
if __name__ == '__main__':
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(
'client_secrets.json',
scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly',
redirect_uri='urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob')
auth_uri = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()
webbrowser.open(auth_uri)
auth_code = raw_input('Enter the auth code: ')
credentials = flow.step2_exchange(auth_code)
http_auth = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
drive_service = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http_auth) #also tried v2
files = drive_service.files().list().execute()
for f in files['files']:
#call one of the two download methods with the proper arguments
Changing from BytesIO to FileIO allowed the file to actually be downloaded. This was the line I modified my code to:
fh = io.FileIO(filename, 'wb')
Here is the complete code that allowed me to download the file:
def download_file(file_id, mimeType, filename):
if "google-apps" in mimeType:
# skip google files
return
request = drive_service.files().get_media(fileId=file_id)
fh = io.FileIO(filename, 'wb')
downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)
done = False
while done is False:
status, done = downloader.next_chunk()
print "Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100)
if __name__ == '__main__':
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(
'client_secrets.json',
scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly',
redirect_uri='urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob')
auth_uri = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()
webbrowser.open(auth_uri)
print auth_uri
auth_code = raw_input('Enter the auth code: ')
credentials = flow.step2_exchange(auth_code)
http_auth = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
drive_service = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http_auth)
files = drive_service.files().list().execute()
for f in files['files']:
print f['name']
download_file(f['id'], f['mimeType'], f['name'])