---
via: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25010369/wget-curl-large-file-from-google-drive
github: https://github.com/wkentaro/gdown
tags:
  - GoogleDrive
  - python
  - opensource
---
A Python tool to download things from Google Drive

```
pipx install gdown
```

After that, you can download any file from Google Drive by running one of these commands:

```
gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=<file_id>  # for files
gdown <file_id>                                 # alternative format
gdown --folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/<file_id>  # for folders
gdown --folder --id <file_id>                                   # this format work
```

I also learned about `pipx`, which is apparently a recommend way for Python to install and run Python scripts in isolated environments. `apt-get install pipx`.