gdown Command Examples

Download files from Google Drive and other URLs. More information: https://github.com/wkentaro/gdown.

• Download a file from a URL:

gdown {{url}}

• Download using a file ID:

gdown {{file_id}}

• Download with fuzzy file ID extraction (also works with https://docs.google.com links):

gdown --fuzzy {{url}}

• Download a folder using its ID or the full URL:

gdown {{folder_id|url}} -O {{path/to/output_directory}} --folder

• Download a tar archive, write it to stdout and extract it:

gdown {{tar_url}} -O - --quiet | tar xvf -