Google drive upload

Google drive upload is a collection of shell scripts runnable on all POSIX compatible shells ( sh / ksh / dash / bash / zsh / etc ).

It utilizes google drive api v3 and google OAuth2.0 to generate access tokens and to authorize application for uploading files/folders to your google drive.

• Minimal
• Upload or Update files/folders
• Recursive folder uploading
• Sync your folders
  • Overwrite or skip existing files.
• Resume Interrupted Uploads
• Share files/folders
  • To anyone or a specific email.
• Config file support
  • Easy to use on multiple machines.
• Latest gdrive api used i.e v3
• Pretty logging
• Easy to install and update
  • Auto update
• An additional sync script for background synchronisation jobs. Read Synchronisation section for more info.

Table of Contents

Compatibility

As this is a collection of shell scripts, there aren't many dependencies. See Native Dependencies after this section for explicitly required program list.

Linux or MacOS

For Linux or MacOS, you hopefully don't need to configure anything extra, it should work by default.

Android

Install Termux and done.

It's fully tested for all usecases of this script.

Install iSH

While it has not been officially tested, but should work given the description of the app. Report if you got it working by creating an issue.

Windows

Use Windows Subsystem

Again, it has not been officially tested on windows, there shouldn't be anything preventing it from working. Report if you got it working by creating an issue.

Installing and Updating

Native Dependencies

This repo contains two types of scripts, posix compatible and bash compatible.

These programs are required in both bash and posix scripts.

If BASH is not available or BASH is available but version is less tham 4.x, then below programs are also required:

These programs are needed for synchronisation script:

Installation

You can install the script by automatic installation script provided in the repository.

This will also install the synchronisation script provided in the repo.

Installation script also checks for the native dependencies.

Default values set by automatic installation script, which are changeable:

Repo: labbots/google-drive-upload

Command name: gupload

Sync command name: gsync

Installation path: $HOME/.google-drive-upload

Source: release { can be branch }

Source value: latest { can be branchname }

Shell file: .bashrc or .zshrc or .profile

Config Path ${HOME}/.googledrive.conf

For custom command names, repo, shell file, etc, see advanced installation method.

Now, for automatic install script, there are two ways:

Basic Method

To install google-drive-upload in your system, you can run the below command:

curl --compressed -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/labbots/google-drive-upload/master/install.sh | sh -s

and done.

Advanced Method

This section provides information on how to utilise the install.sh script for custom usescases.

These are the flags that are available in the install.sh script:

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Updation

If you have followed the automatic method to install the script, then you can automatically update the script.

There are two methods:

1. Use the script itself to update the script.

   gupload -u or gupload --update

   This will update the script where it is installed.

   If you use the this flag without actually installing the script,

   e.g just by sh upload.sh -u then it will install the script or update if already installed.

2. Run the installation script again.

   Yes, just run the installation script again as we did in install section, and voila, it's done.

3. Automatic updates

   By default, script checks for update after 5 days. Use -t / --time flag of install.sh to modify the interval.

   An update log is saved in "${HOME}/.gdrive-downloader/update.log".

Note: Above methods always obey the values set by user in advanced installation, e.g if you have installed the script with different repo, say myrepo/gdrive-upload, then the update will be also fetched from the same repo.

Usage

First, we need to obtain our Oauth credentials, here's how to do it:

Generating Oauth Credentials

• Log into google developer console at google console.
• Create new Project or use existing project.
• Creating new OAuth 2.0 Credentials:
  • Select Application type "other".
  • Provide name for the new credentials. ( anything )
  • This would provide a new Client ID and Client Secret.
  • Download your credentials.json by clicking on the download button.
• Enable Google Drive API for the project under "Library".

Now, we have obtained our credentials, move to next section to use those credentials to setup:

First Run

On first run, the script asks for all the required credentials, which we have obtained in the previous section.

Execute the script: gupload filename

Now, it will ask for following credentials:

Client ID: Copy and paste from credentials.json

Client Secret: Copy and paste from credentials.json

Refresh Token: If you have previously generated a refresh token authenticated to your account, then enter it, otherwise leave blank. If you don't have refresh token, script outputs a URL on the terminal script, open that url in a web browser and tap on allow. Copy the code and paste in the terminal.

Root Folder: Gdrive folder url/id from your account which you want to set as root folder. You can leave it blank and it takes root folder as default.

If everything went fine, all the required credentials have been set, read the next section on how to upload a file/folder.

Upload

For uploading files/remote gdrive files, the syntax is simple;

gupload filename/foldername/file_id/file_link -c gdrive_folder_name

where filename/foldername is input file/folder and gdrive_folder_name is the name of the folder on gdrive, where the input file/folder will be uploaded.

and file_id/file_link is the accessible gdrive file link or id which will be uploaded without downloading.

If gdrive_folder_name is present on gdrive, then script will upload there, else will make a folder with that name.

Note: It's not mandatory to use -c / -C / --create-dir flag.

Apart from basic usage, this script provides many flags for custom usecases, like parallel uploading, skipping upload of existing files, overwriting, etc.

Upload Script Custom Flags

These are the custom flags that are currently implemented:

• -z | --config

  Override default config file with custom config file.

  Default Config: ${HOME}/.googledrive.conf

  If you want to change the default value of the config path, then use this format,

  gupload --config default=your_config_file_path

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• -c | -C | --create-dir

  Option to create directory. Will provide folder id. Can be used to specify workspace folder for uploading files/folders.

  If this option is used, then input file is optional.

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• -r | --root-dir <google_folderid>

  Google folder id or url to which the file/directory to upload.

  If you want to change the default value of the rootdir stored in config, then use this format,

  gupload --root-dir default=root_folder_[id/url]

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• -s | --skip-subdirs

  Skip creation of sub folders and upload all files inside the INPUT folder/sub-folders in the INPUT folder, use this along with -p/--parallel option to speed up the uploads.

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• -p | --parallel <no_of_files_to_parallely_upload>

  Upload multiple files in parallel, Max value = 10, use with folders.

  Note:

  • This command is only helpful if you are uploading many files which aren't big enough to utilise your full bandwidth, using it otherwise will not speed up your upload and even error sometimes,
  • 1 - 6 value is recommended, but can use upto 10. If errors with a high value, use smaller number.
  • Beaware, this isn't magic, obviously it comes at a cost of increased cpu/ram utilisation as it forks multiple shell processes to upload ( google how xargs works with -P option ).

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• -o | --overwrite

  Overwrite the files with the same name, if present in the root folder/input folder, also works with recursive folders and single/multiple files.

  Note: If you use this flag along with -d/--skip-duplicates, the skip duplicates flag is preferred.

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• -d | --skip-duplicates

  Do not upload the files with the same name, if already present in the root folder/input folder, also works with recursive folders.

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• -f | --file/folder

  Specify files and folders explicitly in one command, use multiple times for multiple folder/files.

  For uploading multiple input into the same folder:

  • Use -C / --create-dir ( e.g ./upload.sh -f file1 -f folder1 -f file2 -C <folder_wherw_to_upload> ) option.

  • Give two initial arguments which will use the second argument as the folder you wanna upload ( e.g: ./upload.sh filename <folder_where_to_upload> -f filename -f foldername ).

    This flag can also be used for uploading files/folders which have - character in their name, normally it won't work, because of the flags, but using -f -[file|folder]namewithhyphen works. Applies for -C/--create-dir too.

    Also, as specified by longflags ( --[file|folder] ), you can simultaneously upload a folder and a file.

    Incase of multiple -f flag having duplicate arguments, it takes the last duplicate of the argument to upload, in the same order provided.

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• -cl | --clone

  Upload a gdrive file without downloading, require accessible gdrive link or id as argument.

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• -S | --share <optional_email_address>

  Share the uploaded input file/folder, grant reader permission to provided email address or to everyone with the shareable link.

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• --speed 'speed'

  Limit the download speed, supported formats: 1K, 1M and 1G.

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• -R | --retry 'num of retries'

  Retry the file upload if it fails, postive integer as argument. Currently only for file uploads.

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• -in | --include 'pattern'

  Only include the files with the given pattern to upload - Applicable for folder uploads.

  e.g: gupload local_folder --include "1", will only include the files with pattern '1' in the name.

  Note: Only provide patterns which are supported by find -name option.

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• -ex | --exclude 'pattern'

  e.g: gupload local_folder --exclude "1", will exclude all the files with pattern '1' in the name.

  Note: Only provide patterns which are supported by find -name option.

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• --hide

  This flag will prevent the script to print sensitive information like root folder id or drivelink

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• -q | --quiet

  Supress the normal output, only show success/error upload messages for files, and one extra line at the beginning for folder showing no. of files and sub folders.

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• -v | --verbose

  Dislay detailed message (only for non-parallel uploads).

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• -V | --verbose-progress

  Display detailed message and detailed upload progress(only for non-parallel uploads).

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• --skip-internet-check

  Do not check for internet connection, recommended to use in sync jobs.

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• -i | --save-info <file_to_save_info>

  Save uploaded files info to the given filename."

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• -u | --update

  Update the installed script in your system, if not installed, then install.

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• --info

  Show detailed info, only if script is installed system wide.

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• -h | --help

  Display usage instructions.

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• -D | --debug

  Display script command trace.

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Multiple Inputs

For using multiple inputs at a single time, you can use the -f/--file/--folder or -cl/--clone flag as explained above.

Now, to achieve multiple inputs without flag, you can just use glob or just give them as arguments.

• gupload a b c d

  a/b/c/d will be treated as file/folder/gdrive_link_or_id.

  ---

• gupload *mp4 *mkv

  This will upload all the mp4 and mkv files in the folder, if any.

  To upload all files, just use *. For more info, google how globs work in shell.

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• gupload a b -d c d -c e

  a/b/c/d will be treated as file/folder/gdrive_link_or_id and e as gdrive_folder.

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Resuming Interrupted Uploads

Uploads interrupted either due to bad internet connection or manual interruption, can be resumed from the same position.

• Script checks 3 things, filesize, name and workspace folder. If an upload was interrupted, then resumable upload link is saved in "$HOME/.google-drive-upload/", which later on when running the same command as before, if applicable, resumes the upload from the same position as before.
• Small files cannot be resumed, less that 1 MB, and the amount of size uploaded should be more than 1 MB to resume.
• No progress bars for resumable uploads as it messes up with output.
• You can interrupt many times you want, it will resume ( hopefully ).

Additional Usage

Synchronisation

This repo also provides an additional script ( sync.sh ) to utilise upload.sh for synchronisation jobs, i.e background jobs.

Basic Usage

To create a sync job, just run

gsync folder_name -d gdrive_folder

Here, folder_name is the local folder you want to sync and gdrive_folder is google drive folder name.

In the local folder, all the contents present or added in the future will be automatically uploaded.

Note: Giving gdrive_folder is optional, if you don't specify a name with -d/--directory flags, then it will upload in the root folder set by gupload command.

Also, gdrive folder creation works in the same way as gupload command.

Default wait time: 3 secs ( amount of time to wait before checking new files ).

Default gupload arguments: None ( see -a/--arguments section below ).

Sync Script Custom Flags

Read this section thoroughly to fully utilise the sync script, feel free to open an issue if any doubts regarding the usage.

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Background Sync Jobs

There are basically two ways to start a background job, first one we already covered in the above section.

It will indefinitely run until and unless the host machine is rebooted.

Now, a systemd service service can also be created which will start sync job after boot.

1. To generate a systemd unit file, run the sync command with --service service_name at the end.

   e.g: If gsync foldername -d drive_folder --service myservice, where, myservice can be any name desired.

   This will generate a script and print the next required commands to start/stop/enable/disable the service.

   The commands that will be printed is explained below:

2. Start the service sh gsync-test.service.sh start, where gsync-test is the service name

   This is same as starting a sync job with command itself as mentioned in previous section.

   To stop: sh gsync-test.service.sh stop

3. If you want the job to automatically start on boot, run sh gsync-test.service.sh enable

   To disable: sh gsync-test.service.sh disable

4. To see logs after a job has been started.

   sh gsync-test.service.sh logs

5. To remove a job from system, sh gsync-test.service.sh remove

You can use multiple commands at once, e.g: sh gsync-test.service.sh start logs, will start and show the logs.

Note: The script is merely a wrapper, it uses systemctl to start/stop/enable/disable the service and journalctl is used to show the logs.

Extras: A sample service file has been provided in the repo just for reference, it is recommended to use gsync to generate the service file.

Uninstall

If you have followed the automatic method to install the script, then you can automatically uninstall the script.

There are two methods:

1. Use the script itself to uninstall the script.

   gupload -U or gupload --uninstall

   This will remove the script related files and remove path change from shell file.

2. Run the installation script again with -U/--uninstall flag

   curl --compressed -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/labbots/google-drive-upload/master/install.sh | sh -s -- --uninstall

   Yes, just run the installation script again with the flag and voila, it's done.

Note: Above methods always obey the values set by user in advanced installation.

Reporting Issues

Use the GitHub issue tracker for any bugs or feature suggestions.

Before creating an issue, make sure to follow the guidelines specified in CONTRIBUTION.md

Contributing

Submit patches to code or documentation as GitHub pull requests! Check out the contribution guide

Contributions must be licensed under the MIT. The contributor retains the copyright.

Inspired By

• github-bashutils - soulseekah/bash-utils
• deanet-gist - Uploading File into Google Drive
• Bash Bible - A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes
• sh bible - A collection of posix alternatives to external processes

License

MIT

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