Tip for downloading from google drive on remote filesystem

[ed-fish]

I spent a while trying to figure out how to get the files from Google Drive since gdown and youtube-dl didn't work. This turned out to be the simplest way I could find and thought it might help someone else.

• Purchase additional gdrive storage (1tb = ~£7) and then copy the files to your drive. Change the link share permissions to read.
• Go to OAuth 2.0 Playground https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
• In the Select the Scope box, paste https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
• Click Authorize APIs and then Exchange authorization code for tokens
• Copy the Access token to replace ACCESS_TOKEN below.
• Back in your google drive click the file to download locally and then cancel the download - go to your downloads in the browser and copy the ID part of the url for FILE_ID below.
• Finally run in terminal
  curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/FILE_ID?alt=media -o FILE_NAME
• Delete files from local gdrive and submit refund request.