README.md

GoogleDrive_downloader_ipywidgets

Easily search for files in Google drive folders and download them with the press of an ipywidget button

Two classes:

1. DriveDownloader: Thin wrapper around the gdrive documentation's tutorial
2. WidgetDriveDownloader(DriveDownloader) Inherited class that adds the ipywidgets for inputting search queries and buttons to search and download

Notes:

• Can use the DriveDownloader class independently in scripts (without ipywidgets)
• Easily customize the two classes to your needs.
• Public Google Drive folder for testing
• PRs welcome too!

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ljburtz/GoogleDrive_downloader_ipywidgets.git
cd GoogleDrive_downloader_ipywidgets
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate gdrive
python -m ipykernel install --user --name=gdrive
jupyter notebook gdrive_downloader.ipynb

Get your google drive credentials: client_id.json by following this tutorial by FIRE Capital One Machine Learning of UMD.edu

Play

• Run all cells
• Authenticate with your personal gdrive credentials: edit the path to where you downloaded client_id.json
• Type the inputs into the ipywidget text boxes: choose inside which gdrive folder to look, which type of file you want to download, and where to save the downloaded files on your PC
• Click on the search buttons, then the download button

Sources / Resources

• Very helpful for setting up the gdrive credentials https://medium.com/@umdfirecoml/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-download-your-google-drive-data-to-your-jupyter-notebook-using-the-52f4ce63c66c
• Google Drive v3 API docs : https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/python?authuser=1