phinch / google-drive-backup

A Python script to sync your google drive contents.

Google Drive Backup

A python script to sync your google drive contents.

⚠️ This repository is not maintained anymore. Some of the forks might be more up-to-date.

Features

• You can Download your entire google drive or any given folder
• Downloads a file only if it has been modified since last download
• Logs all actions (optional)
• Uses OAuth2 authentication and can remember authentication

Requirements

• Google API Python library. To install run pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client or easy_install --upgrade google-api-python-client

Setup

• Edit client_secrets_sample.json and add your Google API client id and client secret (If you don't have one, get it here).
• Save it as client_secrets.json.
• Now, if you run python drive.py, a browser window/tab will open for you to authenticate the script.
• Once authentication is done, the script will start downloading your My Drive. Refer the next section for more options.

Options

Following command line options are available.

--destination - Path to the folder where the files have to be downloaded to. If not specified, a folder named downloaded is created in the current directory.

--debug - If present (accepts no value), every step will be logged to the log file.

--logfile - Path to the file to which the logs should be written to. By default, writes to drive.log in the current directory. The file will be overwritten every time the script is run.

--drive_id ID of the folder which you want to download. By default, entire "My Drive" is downloaded.