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Gdrive – A command line utility for interacting with Google Drive

145 points by tonteldoos 10y ago

jakebasile 10y ago
Always relevant: How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming? https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-google-drive-linux-client-is-coming/ https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go...
- xenobioticants 10y ago
  In case people are looking for a Google Drive client that feels pretty well put together, I'd recommend Overgrive: https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive
  - zxv 10y ago
    How well does Overgrive peform compared to insync? https://www.insynchq.com/ https://www.insynchq.com/
    - xenobioticants 10y ago
      No idea, but Overgrive feels as fast on Linux as the Google Drive client on OS X does for me. Its also 5x cheaper, although the site is decidedly less professional (which actually comforts me in a strange way because that means its probably made by a Linux geek who cares jack shit about fancy UI = good core code)
- aq3cn 10y ago
  404. That’s an error. The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know. We're still waiting. [[https://plus.google.com/+ChadMcCullough/posts/SxDNKR7ehSL] https://plus.google.com/+ChadMcCullough/posts/SxDNKR7ehSL]]
- Florin_Andrei 10y ago
  The fact that Dropbox has a client that works on any OS, is reliable, and very unobtrusive, are the reasons why I've always preferred it, and still do.
  - TillE 10y ago
    It makes Google's lack of official Linux support even more galling. Here's a tiny company which has had good Linux tools (command line and GUI) from very early on. It's not an enormous technical challenge. Google, institutionally, just doesn't care. It's not about Linux, but everything outside of their top priorities gets completely neglected.
    - kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
      What's more amazing is that no Googler has done it on their 20% time.
      - sammydavis 10y ago
        They have, they just didn't officially license it. Inside google, people are using gdrive that way.
    - dorfsmay 10y ago
      Yes. I just wish Dropbox had better plans for small orgs (like a family).
    - Chris2048 10y ago
      > not an enormous technical challenge No, but once they officially make the thing, they have to support it.
  - b2600 10y ago
    I waited for the Drive client. It never came. Stayed with Dropbox
wooptoo 10y ago
That's great work. There's also rclone which I use for one-way backups of Gdrive contents.
oxguy3 10y ago
This looks neat. Worth noting, there's another similar tool called skicka (https://github.com/google/skicka https://github.com/google/skicka). It's on Google's GitHub profile, although a disclaimer says it's not an official Google product.
ktta 10y ago
An alternative is rclone[0] which supports a number of other services like ACD, backblaze's cloud service and much more. And it uses rsync for actual sync services so you know the backend already. Also, the github for rclone[1] [0]:http://rclone.org/ http://rclone.org/ [1]:https://github.com/ncw/rclone https://github.com/ncw/rclone
- shinymark 10y ago
  We're using rclone for a nightly offsite backup to Backblaze B2. It's working well for us.
  - atomi 10y ago
    It's always a pleasure to use golang software. It's always fast and reliable in my experience and Rclone is no exception.
- exhilaration 10y ago
  Thanks! I use Cloudberry Backup [1] to backup to Google Drive and it works very well but rclone looks far more lightweight. [1] http://www.cloudberrylab.com/ http://www.cloudberrylab.com/
ibab 10y ago
I can recommend the drive command line tool: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive https://github.com/odeke-em/drive It's also written in Go, but is different from gdrive and skicka in that it has a push/pull workflow that feels similar to using a VCS like git.
- ams6110 10y ago
  Have used this to automate a publishing workflow that starts with content in Google Docs. Works well.
2bluesc 10y ago
One thing that baffles me with Google Drive is security and permissions. To go through a folder and all of it's sub-folders to unshare or fix things is a tedious pain. Plus, all the random cloud apps that require access to all files in Google Drive make it worse. Object storage with the notion of buckets seems much simpler to manage. How to others deal with or rationalize Google Drive security?

145 points by tonteldoos 10y ago

Always relevant: How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming? https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-google-drive-linux-client-is-coming/ https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go...

xenobioticants 10y ago
In case people are looking for a Google Drive client that feels pretty well put together, I'd recommend Overgrive: https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive
- zxv 10y ago
  How well does Overgrive peform compared to insync? https://www.insynchq.com/ https://www.insynchq.com/
  - xenobioticants 10y ago
    No idea, but Overgrive feels as fast on Linux as the Google Drive client on OS X does for me. Its also 5x cheaper, although the site is decidedly less professional (which actually comforts me in a strange way because that means its probably made by a Linux geek who cares jack shit about fancy UI = good core code)
aq3cn 10y ago
404. That’s an error. The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know. We're still waiting. [[https://plus.google.com/+ChadMcCullough/posts/SxDNKR7ehSL] https://plus.google.com/+ChadMcCullough/posts/SxDNKR7ehSL]]
Florin_Andrei 10y ago
The fact that Dropbox has a client that works on any OS, is reliable, and very unobtrusive, are the reasons why I've always preferred it, and still do.
- TillE 10y ago
  It makes Google's lack of official Linux support even more galling. Here's a tiny company which has had good Linux tools (command line and GUI) from very early on. It's not an enormous technical challenge. Google, institutionally, just doesn't care. It's not about Linux, but everything outside of their top priorities gets completely neglected.
  - kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
    What's more amazing is that no Googler has done it on their 20% time.
    - sammydavis 10y ago
      They have, they just didn't officially license it. Inside google, people are using gdrive that way.
  - dorfsmay 10y ago
    Yes. I just wish Dropbox had better plans for small orgs (like a family).
  - Chris2048 10y ago
    > not an enormous technical challenge No, but once they officially make the thing, they have to support it.
- b2600 10y ago
  I waited for the Drive client. It never came. Stayed with Dropbox

wooptoo 10y ago

That's great work. There's also rclone which I use for one-way backups of Gdrive contents.

oxguy3 10y ago

This looks neat. Worth noting, there's another similar tool called skicka (https://github.com/google/skicka https://github.com/google/skicka). It's on Google's GitHub profile, although a disclaimer says it's not an official Google product.

ktta 10y ago

An alternative is rclone[0] which supports a number of other services like ACD, backblaze's cloud service and much more. And it uses rsync for actual sync services so you know the backend already. Also, the github for rclone[1] [0]:http://rclone.org/ http://rclone.org/ [1]:https://github.com/ncw/rclone https://github.com/ncw/rclone

shinymark 10y ago
We're using rclone for a nightly offsite backup to Backblaze B2. It's working well for us.
- atomi 10y ago
  It's always a pleasure to use golang software. It's always fast and reliable in my experience and Rclone is no exception.
exhilaration 10y ago
Thanks! I use Cloudberry Backup [1] to backup to Google Drive and it works very well but rclone looks far more lightweight. [1] http://www.cloudberrylab.com/ http://www.cloudberrylab.com/

ibab 10y ago

I can recommend the drive command line tool: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive https://github.com/odeke-em/drive It's also written in Go, but is different from gdrive and skicka in that it has a push/pull workflow that feels similar to using a VCS like git.

ams6110 10y ago
Have used this to automate a publishing workflow that starts with content in Google Docs. Works well.

2bluesc 10y ago

One thing that baffles me with Google Drive is security and permissions. To go through a folder and all of it's sub-folders to unshare or fix things is a tedious pain. Plus, all the random cloud apps that require access to all files in Google Drive make it worse. Object storage with the notion of buckets seems much simpler to manage. How to others deal with or rationalize Google Drive security?