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download file from google drive .. - evilcode1 - Sep-19-2018

hello all ....
im trying to download a file from a direct link ( google drive ) ...
this is my function ..

command = raw_input()
linux = os.getenv("HOME")

def downloadfile():
    
    if os.path.isfile(linux + "/plink.exe"):
        pass
    else:
        urllib.urlretrieve(command, str(linux) + '/plink.exe')

it will take the link from command vir ... but i need to download it without writing the filename !! i mean i need it to do it auto ... how i can do this in python ??
this is my link : https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=19LJ6Otr9p_stY5MLeEfRnA-jD8xXvK3m

RE: download file from google drive .. - Axel_Erfurt - Sep-19-2018

import os
import urllib.request

linux = os.getenv("HOME")
outfile = linux  + "/Downloads/plink.exe"
 
DLFile = urllib.request.urlopen("https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=19LJ6Otr9p_stY5MLeEfRnA-jD8xXvK3m")
with open(outfile,'wb') as out:
    out.write(DLFile.read())

RE: download file from google drive .. - evilcode1 - Sep-19-2018

(Sep-19-2018, 09:40 AM)Axel_Erfurt Wrote:

import os
import urllib.request

linux = os.getenv("HOME")
outfile = linux  + "/Downloads/plink.exe"
 
DLFile = urllib.request.urlopen("https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=19LJ6Otr9p_stY5MLeEfRnA-jD8xXvK3m")
with open(outfile,'wb') as out:
    out.write(DLFile.read())

thank u but u did not understand what i want !! i dont want to write the ouput name ( /Downloads/plink.exe" ) i need to download without write filename in the code ... need the code to bring it from the link and save it to home dir

RE: download file from google drive .. - Axel_Erfurt - Sep-19-2018

ok then use wget module

import wget
import os
from os.path import expanduser

myhome = expanduser("~")
### set working dir
os.chdir(myhome)


url = "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=19LJ6Otr9p_stY5MLeEfRnA-jD8xXvK3m"
print('downloading ...')
wget.download(url)

RE: download file from google drive .. - snippsat - Sep-19-2018

Can use wget package as postet bye @Axel_Erfurt.

If doing it yourself have to look at file header,as url address dos not give away filename or extension.
For this use Requests,or always use Requests and not urllib.
headers['Content-Disposition'] gives info about filename,but the sting is a little messy so have to parse out file name.

import requests
import re

url = 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=19LJ6Otr9p_stY5MLeEfRnA-jD8xXvK3m'
response =  requests.get(url)
header = response.headers['Content-Disposition']
file_name = re.search(r'filename="(.*)"', header).group(1)
with open(file_name,'wb') as f:
    f.write(response.content)

This give same as wget module Copy of plink.exe.
Can aslo do this with open(file_name.split()[-1],'wb') as f: to just get plink.exe

evilcode Wrote:command = raw_input()

No and no use Python 3.6 --> Cool

RE: download file from google drive .. - evilcode1 - Sep-21-2018

(Sep-19-2018, 11:55 AM)snippsat Wrote:
file_name = re.search(r'filename="(.*)"', header).group(1)

thank u very much it's working ... but i did not understand the above line can u explain what it do in details ?

RE: download file from google drive .. - snippsat - Sep-21-2018

(Sep-21-2018, 04:16 PM)evilcode1 Wrote: thank u very much it's working ... but i did not understand the above line can u explain what it do in details ?

I use regex .
The string get back is messy.

>>> header = response.headers['Content-Disposition']
>>> print(header)
attachment;filename="Copy of plink.exe";filename*=UTF-8''Copy%20of%20plink.exe

So can use regex take out only stuff wanted.

A other example:

>>> import re
>>> 
>>> s = 'aaaa some text foo="bar" [bbbb]'
>>> r = re.search(r'foo=\"(.*)\"\s\[(.*)\]', s)
>>> r.group(0)
'foo="bar" [bbbb]'
>>> r.group(1)
'bar'
>>> r.group(2)
'bbbb'

So i can take out part i want from string,regex is a big topic so look into tutorials and documentation.

RE: download file from google drive .. - evilcode1 - Sep-21-2018

THANK U very much i understand now :)