Updating my CLI Google Drive Client

A couple of year back I blogged about a custom Google Drive workflow. The tool I'm using I recently noticed is facing some issues - when trying to pull the file I am presented with the following:


The problem seems to be that this tool is using a single API key/secret amongst all users - and with the popularity of this tool it's exceeding the daily usage limit each day. The product seems to be not actively maintained for a while now - so back to the drawing board.

There is another popular tool on GitHub, which supports overriding the API credentials used based on some environment variables. This tool is aptly called "drive" - and the project is found here: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive

Per the documentation, you can set up your own API client credentials to use with this tool to avoid the possibility of any usage limit violations (assuming it's just for personal use, it's unlikely you would exceed these):

> Optionally set the GOOGLE_API_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_API_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables to use your own API keys.

For this, you need to go to the Google API Console and create new credentials against a new/existing project.

Once installed, it will be slightly different behaviour. First you need a Drive context folder. So, per the documentation, I call drive init ~/gdrive. This will prompt you to go to a URL and paste the generated token.

With that done, if you navigate into your folder, and run the command drive ls, you should see all your Drive files and folders.

Further, if you want to pull a specific file you can do so with the filename or the ID. Since I was using the file ID with the previous tool I was using, I will just continue down that path. So my command ends up looking like this for pulling:

~/gdrive$ drive pull -quiet -no-prompt -id <fileToken>

And similarly for pushing (pushing doesn't seem to support the -id flag).

~/gdrive$ drive push -no-prompt -files MyFile.txt

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