This tutorial is outdated and doesn't work anymore.
You cannot download files from Google Drive directly on your Linux Machine using wget command. Which is a pain if you want to download your server files or any other file on your Linux Machine or VPS.
I am providing here a quick method to download the files directly using Terminal or Putty. This method will work for both small and large files.
A public download URL for files on Google Drive looks like this : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yDhqEkXZPdq9Ln_ABD34_oUdNta0YUU/view
The highlighted yellow part in the above URL is the File ID of the file on the Google Drive. We will use this File ID in the download process.
Step 1: Login to your Linux Machine using Putty.
Step 2: cd into some directory or folder where you want the file to be downloaded.
Step 3: Now enter below commands one by one to download the file from Google Drive. Make sure to replace the FILE_ID in first command with the actual ID of the file like shown above, and replace the FILE_NAME in second command with the name of the file (You can use any name, for example: serverfiles.zip).
Bash:
# Replace the FILE_ID with actual ID of the file. You can find the ID in google drive download link.
curl -c /tmp/cookies "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID" > /tmp/intermezzo.html
# Replace the FILE_NAME with any name you want (For example: serverfiles.zip). After the download is complete, your downloaded file name will be the name which you provided in this command.
curl -L -b /tmp/cookies "https://drive.google.com$(cat /tmp/intermezzo.html | grep -Po 'uc-download-link" [^>]* href="\K[^"]*' | sed 's/\&/\&/g')" > FILE_NAMENote : If you get error
Unknown command 'curl'. Then you need to install curl first.
Bash:
# For Debian/Ubuntu users
apt install curl
# For RHEL/CentOS users
yum install curlCredits: This method is taken from Martin Pecka's answer on Stack Overflow website.
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