file download from google drive to colaboratory

Question

I was trying to download file from my google drive to colaboratory.

file_id = \'1uBtlaggVyWshwcyP6kEI-y_W3P8D26sz\'

import io
from googleapiclient.http import M         


        

Answer 1

You need to define a drive API service client to interact with the Google drive API, for instance:

from googleapiclient.discovery import build
drive_service = build('drive', 'v3')

(see the notebook External data: Drive, Sheets, and Cloud Storage/Drive REST API)