The file name contains blanks and therefore had to be placed within quotes. Thus the file 'Kijij Listings - edited.xlsx' was downloaded on the local, temporary disk, on the colab cloud-based system. !wget -no-check-certificate '' -O 'Kijij Listings - edited.xlsx' The link I needed was:įrom which one can extract the file name as 1AnsoyBESGSYzRvbMQh5-FWJdgtTo_gOj and construct the wget command based on the blog information and remembering that on a colab Jupyter notebook access to the (linux) system requires a ! placed before wget: The trick is to figure out the long-name of the file on Google drive from the shared link. (EDIT: See alternate method to upload local file or download remote file below.) The solutionĪ quick search led me to this blog page: Download Google Drive Files using wget byĪnjan Chandra Paudel (May 3, 2019♱ min read – archived ) that had the critical information I needed.įirst, the file has to be shared and be less than 100Mb (if more the command will be more complex, see below.)

The trick is that any link to a shared file is assuming that the user will interact with it within a browser, not download it (which would result in some HTML front page to be downloaded.) To get that file I needed to download it, and the easiest way is to use wget. The script was on the “colab” system on Google (see below,) a web-based free service. But I needed the file as well to test the notebook. The author of the (Jupyter notebook python) script did not have to worry about transferring the file as the file was already within the author’s Google drive folder. I was recently faced with this dilemma when I was trying a set of command examples that used a shared google drive file. However, sometimes it may be useful, or even necessary, to access and download a file from a command line, for example downloading the file with the wget utility. The problem: transfer file between cloudsįiles on Google drive can be shared between users, but the default access to the file is via a web browser graphical interface.

Download all files on google drive