gdrive

Overview

gdrive is a command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.

Important

1. Enable https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/google/drive.googleapis.com
2. https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials and application type to be Desktop App give some name
3. In "OAuth consent screen"; User type to External and publish
4. Get the values for clientId and clientSecret
5. For Go-preinstalled linux VM use: https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard?cloudshell=true or install go version go1.19.1 linux/amd64 from https://go.dev/doc/install

Download and compile

1. git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/carstentrink/gdrive
2. cd gdrive
3. Just edit the clientId and clientSecret in the file handlers_drive.go.
4. ./compile
5. The binaries are located inside gdrive/bin folder
6. ./gdrive_linux_amd64 about

./bin/gdrive_linux_amd64 about
Authentication needed
Go to the following url in your browser:
http://127.0.0.1:45137/authorize

Waiting for authentication response

7. Open a browser at the URL
8. For remote linux boxes just do the authentication locally and copy the linux binary and ~/.config/gdrive/USERNAME_v2.json to the remote box.