Pydrive download file

Thanks for the great answers! Fastest way to get a few one-off files to Colab from Google drive: Load the Drive helper and mount.

I figured out this to be the easiest and fastest way to mount google drive into CO Lab, You can change the mount directory location to what ever you want by just changing the parameter for drive. It will give you a link to accept the permissions with your account and then you have to copy paste the key generated and then drive will be mounted in the selected path. Though you can import files from your drive and everytime when you are done with file you can save it back.

Now you can access any file from your colab, you can write as well as read from it. The changes will be done real time on your drive and anyone having the access link to your file can view the changes made by you from your colab. Also I have a simple notebook in gColab.

Thanks for help! The completed flow looks like so: The original answer follows, below. This will also still work for shared notebooks. You can mount your Google Drive files by running the following code snippet: Then, you can interact with your Drive files in the file browser side panel or using command-line utilities.

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Helps common operations else than API calls, such as content fetching and pagination control. How to install You can install PyDrive with regular pip command. PyDrive will do it in the most efficient way. SetContentString 'Hello' file1. Upload Files. GetContentString 'Hello' file1. Asked 4 years ago.

Active 1 year, 7 months ago. Viewed 7k times. My Google Drive looks something like this: picture1. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. James Shapiro James Shapiro 3, 1 1 gold badge 25 25 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I figured it out. Basically you need to use the file id to list or download a folder's contents. GetContentFile file1['title']. Downloading each file individually seems incredibly slow when I run it. Is there no way to just grab an entire directory at once?