How to upload a file to google drive?

Question

I would like to just upload files to google drive from the command line. I don't care about synchronisation. I just want to upload things to google drive and if they exist they get replaced if not they are created.

I know grive exists but that syncs everything from google drive to the folder you use which isn't what I want.

I was wondering if there is a solution to this, through scp or something similar?

thanks

Solution 1

There is a good tutorial here.

To summarize the link:

• If not already installed, install curl
• create Google security certificate
• test from command line
• create Python script to automate

Solution 2

send the file to your gmail account as attachment and from there you can save it to google drive directly.

uuencode file.txt file.txt | mail [email protected]

I know this is not direct to gdrive, but as there is no other options available I use this easy approach.

Comments

[Alex]

scp and rsync use ssh. AFAIK Google Drive doesn't offer ssh. rsync can also connect to a rsync daemon, but I doubt Google Drive offers that as well. AFAIK they don't even offer FTP, so probably the only way is creating a script using cURL.

[Арсен Мирзаян]

which kind of "hacks" it's way through the browser interface?

[Oki Erie Rinaldi]

you can check this out github.com/prasmussen/gdrive

[Oki Erie Rinaldi]

I just do ./gdrive-linux-x64 upload yourfile.rar. And Then yourfile.rar will be uploaded to your gdrive home folder

[brasofilo]

The service Couchdrop.io acts as middleman and is free up to 1GB

[brasofilo]

Nice trick, pity that's not exactly what's being asked. I need to send a big file and email attachments are restricted to 25MB

[raj]

No way that can be called an "easy" approach.