How to download specific Google Drive folder using Python?

Question

I\'m trying to download specific folders from Google Drive.

I tried this example http://www.mwclearning.com/?p=1608 but its download all the files from G-Drive.

Answer 1

Please do download the 'client_id.json' file as specified in the tutorial link for downloading follow steps 5-7

In the last line of the code change the "folder_id" to the id of the folder you want to download from drive by right clicking on the folder and enabling share link. The id will be the part of URL after "id=" and also changing the "savepath" to the path where you want to save the downloaded folder to be on your system.

from __future__ import print_function

from googleapiclient import discovery
from httplib2 import Http
from oauth2client import file, client, tools
import os, io
from apiclient.http import MediaFileUpload, MediaIoBaseDownload

SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'
store = file.Storage('storage.json')
creds = store.get()
if not creds or creds.invalid:
    flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets('client_id.json', SCOPES)
    creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store)
DRIVE = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http=creds.authorize(Http()))

def retaining_folder_structure(query,filepath):
    results = DRIVE.files().list(fields="nextPageToken, files(id, name, kind, mimeType)",q=query).execute()
    items = results.get('files', [])
    for item in items:
        #print(item['name'])
        if item['mimeType']=='application/vnd.google-apps.folder':
            fold=item['name']
            path=filepath+'/'+fold
            if os.path.isdir(path):
                retaining_folder_structure("'%s' in parents"%(item['id']),path)
            else:
                os.mkdir(path)
                retaining_folder_structure("'%s' in parents"%(item['id']),path)
        else:
            request = DRIVE.files().get_media(fileId=item['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))
            path=filepath+'/'+item['name']
            #print(path)
            with io.open(path,'wb') as f:
                fh.seek(0)
                f.write(fh.read())

retaining_floder_structure("'folder_id' in parents",'savepath')