google-drive-to-sqlite
Create a SQLite database containing metadata from Google Drive
If you use Google Drive, and especially if you have shared drives with other people there's a good chance you have hundreds or even thousands of files that you may not be fully aware of.
This tool can download metadata about those files - their names, sizes, folders, content types, permissions, creation dates and more - and store them in a SQLite database.
This lets you use SQL to analyze your Google Drive contents, using Datasette or the SQLite command-line tool or any other SQLite database browsing software.
Installation
Install this tool using pip:
$ pip install google-drive-to-sqlite
Authentication
⚠️ This application has not yet been verified by Google - you may find you are unable to authenticate until that verification is complete. #10
First, authenticate with Google Drive using the auth command:
% google-drive-to-sqlite auth
Visit the following URL to authenticate with Google Drive
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth?...
Then return here and paste in the resulting code:
Paste code here:
Follow the link, sign in with Google Drive and then copy and paste the resulting code back into the tool.
This will save an authentication token to the file called auth.json in the current directory.
To specify a different location for that file, use the --auth option:
google-drive-to-sqlite auth --auth ~/google-drive-auth.json
The auth command also provides options for using a different scope, Google client ID and Google client secret. You can use these to create your own custom authentication tokens that can work with other Google APIs, see issue #5 for details.
Full --help:
Usage: google-drive-to-sqlite auth [OPTIONS]
Authenticate user and save credentials
Options:
-a, --auth FILE Path to save token, defaults to auth.json
--google-client-id TEXT Custom Google client ID
--google-client-secret TEXT Custom Google client secret
--scope TEXT Custom token scope
--help Show this message and exit.
To revoke the token that is stored in auth.json, run the revoke command:
google-drive-to-sqlite revoke
Or if your token is stored in another location:
google-drive-to-sqlite revoke -a ~/google-drive-auth.json
google-drive-to-sqlite files
To retrieve metadata about the files in your Google Drive, or a folder or search within it, use the google-drive-to-sqlite files command.
This will default to writing details about every file in your Google Drive to a SQLite database:
google-drive-to-sqlite files files.db
Files will be written to a files table, which will be created if it does not yet exist.
If a file already exists in that table, based on a matching id, it will be replaced with fresh data.
Instead of writing to SQLite you can use --json to output as JSON, or --nl to output as newline-delimited JSON:
google-drive-to-sqlite files --nl
Use --folder ID to retrieve everything in a specified folder and its sub-folders:
google-drive-to-sqlite files files.db --folder 1E6Zg2X2bjjtPzVfX8YqdXZDCoB3AVA7i
Use --q QUERY to use a custom search query:
google-drive-to-sqlite files files.db -q 'starred = true'
Use --full-text TEXT to search for files where the full text matches a search term:
google-drive-to-sqlite files files.db --full-text 'datasette'
Use --stop-after X to stop after retrieving X files.
Full --help:
Usage: google-drive-to-sqlite files [OPTIONS] [DATABASE]
Retrieve metadata for files in Google Drive, and write to a SQLite database or
output as JSON.
google-drive-to-sqlite files files.db
Use --json to output JSON, --nl for newline-delimited JSON:
google-drive-to-sqlite files files.db --json
Use a folder ID to recursively fetch every file in that folder and its sub-
folders:
google-drive-to-sqlite files files.db --folder
1E6Zg2X2bjjtPzVfX8YqdXZDCoB3AVA7i
Options:
-a, --auth FILE Path to auth.json token file
--folder TEXT Files in this folder ID and its sub-folders
-q TEXT Files matching this query
--full-text TEXT Search for files with text match
--json Output JSON rather than write to DB
--nl Output newline-delimited JSON rather than write to DB
--stop-after INTEGER Stop paginating after X results
--help Show this message and exit.
google-drive-to-sqlite download FILE_ID
The download command can be used to download files from Google Drive.
You'll need one or more file IDs, which look something like 0B32uDVNZfiEKLUtIT1gzYWN2NDI4SzVQYTFWWWxCWUtvVGNB.
To download the file, run this:
google-drive-to-sqlite download 0B32uDVNZfiEKLUtIT1gzYWN2NDI4SzVQYTFWWWxCWUtvVGNB
This will detect the content type of the file and use that as the extension - so if this file is a JPEG the file would be downloaded as:
0B32uDVNZfiEKLUtIT1gzYWN2NDI4SzVQYTFWWWxCWUtvVGNB.jpeg
You can pass multiple file IDs to the command at once.
To hide the progress bar and filename output, use -s or --silent.
If you are downloading a single file you can use the -o output to specify a filename and location:
google-drive-to-sqlite download 0B32uDVNZfiEKLUtIT1gzYWN2NDI4SzVQYTFWWWxCWUtvVGNB \
-o my-image.jpeg
Use -o - to write the file contents to standard output:
google-drive-to-sqlite download 0B32uDVNZfiEKLUtIT1gzYWN2NDI4SzVQYTFWWWxCWUtvVGNB \
-o - > my-image.jpeg
Full --help:
Usage: google-drive-to-sqlite download [OPTIONS] FILE_IDS...
Download one or more file IDs to disk
Options:
-a, --auth FILE Path to auth.json token file
-o, --output FILE File to write to, or - for standard output
-s, --silent Hide progress bar and filename
--help Show this message and exit.
google-drive-to-sqlite get URL
The get command makes authenticated requests to the specified URL, using credentials derived from the auth.json file.
For example:
% google-drive-to-sqlite get 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/about?fields=*'
{
"kind": "drive#about",
"user": {
"kind": "drive#user",
"displayName": "Simon Willison",
# ...
If the resource you are fetching supports pagination you can use --paginate key to paginate through all of the rows in a specified key. For example, the following API has a nextPageToken key and a files list, suggesting it supports pagination:
% google-drive-to-sqlite get https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files
{
"kind": "drive#fileList",
"nextPageToken": "~!!~AI9...wogHHYlc=",
"incompleteSearch": false,
"files": [
{
"kind": "drive#file",
"id": "1YEsITp_X8PtDUJWHGM0osT-TXAU1nr0e7RSWRM2Jpyg",
"name": "Title of a spreadsheet",
"mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet"
},
To paginate through everything in the files list you would use --paginate files lyike this:
% google-drive-to-sqlite get https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files --paginate files
[
{
"kind": "drive#file",
"id": "1YEsITp_X8PtDUJWHGM0osT-TXAU1nr0e7RSWRM2Jpyg",
"name": "Title of a spreadsheet",
"mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet"
},
# ...
Add --nl to stream paginated data as newline-delimited JSON:
% google-drive-to-sqlite get https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files --paginate files --nl
{"kind": "drive#file", "id": "1YEsITp_X8PtDUJWHGM0osT-TXAU1nr0e7RSWRM2Jpyg", "name": "Title of a spreadsheet", "mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet"}
{"kind": "drive#file", "id": "1E6Zg2X2bjjtPzVfX8YqdXZDCoB3AVA7i", "name": "Subfolder", "mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.folder"}
Add --stop-after 5 to stop after 5 records - useful for testing.
Full --help:
Usage: google-drive-to-sqlite get [OPTIONS] URL
Make an authenticated HTTP GET to the specified URL
Options:
-a, --auth FILE Path to auth.json token file
--paginate TEXT Paginate through all results in this key
--nl Output paginated data as newline-delimited JSON
--stop-after INTEGER Stop paginating after X results
--help Show this message and exit.
Privacy policy
This tool requests access to your Google Drive account in order to retrieve metadata about your files there. It also offers a feature that can download the content of those files.
The credentials used to access your account are stored in the auth.json file on your computer. The metadata and content retrieved from Google Drive is also stored only on your own personal computer.
At no point to the developers of this tool gain access to any of your data.
Development
To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:
cd google-drive-to-sqlite
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Or if you are using pipenv:
pipenv shell
Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:
pip install -e '.[test]'
To run the tests:
pytest
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