GoGoDrive

gogodrive is a very simple CLI application to upload files to your Google Drive account.

It's strongly based on this tutorial (which I recommend in order to know how to create the proper credentials to allow the application access you GDrive account) and on this post. Basically, I just glue all together.

Why??

Just for fun. And I needed a tool to upload files to a GDrive account, periodically (via cron) on different Linux machines with different Linux flavours. And I want to learn Golang, so this tool seemed to be a good start. And, you know, just for fun.

How to use

Assuming that you already have the credential file, you also need a configuration file (in JSON) like:

{
	"credential.file": "absolute path to google credendial file JSON",
	"token.file": "absolute path to token file",
	"delete.pattern": "search file string",
	"upload.max_tries": 3 // max number of attempts to upload the file, if fail
}

This tool was designed to upload fresh backups on a GDrive account, trying not to exceed the account space (unless the file you trying to upload is greater than the left space in your GDrive), so the delete.pattern is used to "delete" older files before upload a new one.

delete.pattern follow the Google Drive API query patterns described here, with a plus, you can add a variable today date in the pattern:

{
    // ...
    "delete.pattern": "modifiedTime <= '{today-10}'"
}

That will delete all files where modifiedTime is less or equal than 10 days before the machine current date.

Sure, you can leave delete.pattern empty and never delete files at all.

Usage

gogodrive -c config_file -i upload.file [-o target_filename]

If the argument -o is missing, the target file name will be the same as uploaded file name.

If you don't have the token.file yet, the application will ask you to go to a link in your browser in order to authorize access to your GDrive account. Copy the authorization code and paste it in the terminal, then press enter.

Go to the following link in your browser then type the authorization code: 
https://accounts.google.com/.....
[paste the authorization code here and press enter]

After that, the token file will be created and saved in the path you set on token.file property of your config.json file. Once created, the token file won't be asked anymore. So, before put gogodrive in a crontab, you will need:

• Go to https://console.cloud.google.com in order to create the credential file (see here);

• Run gogodrive once by yourself in order to create the token file;

• With these two files, you can put gogodrive to run in a crontab.

Tests

Yeah! I know. Sorry.