install

sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

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connect to Google Drive API

Google Drive with rclone

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1. Get the client ID and client secret

   • Go to https://console.developers.google.com/ and login with a google account (not important to be same with your Google Drive account)
   • Select a project or create a new one
   • Go to ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES and search for Google Drive API at top search bar and enable this
   • Click on Credentials in left side panel
   • You should configure Consent Screen if you did not before. To this end, click on CONFIGURE CONSENT SCREEN button at top right
   • Select External and CREATE -> Enter App name, User Support Email, and Developer Contact Email with deliberate things and click save
   • Add the auth/docs Google Drive API scope to the list of scopes to have the read only permission of content (for download) -> click Save and continue
   • ADD YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE ACCOUNT EMAIL IN THE TEST USERS
   • Go to Credentials again -> Click on + CREATE CREDENTIALS at top -> OAuth client ID
   • Choose Desktop app and click on Create
   • Note the Client ID and Client Secret provided here
   • This would be Testing app and the access will only be valid for only one week. After that, you should grant access again, which is easy. You can also publish your app to prevent this but it might throw some confirmation when you are configuring for remote according to docs.

2. Configure rclone with new remote using rclone config. Then enter the details and not go for advanced configurations (defaults are enough). The remote type code is 17 (Google Drive) and the access request should be 2 (Read-only)

3. After configuring the remote, you can list directories and files separately using following commands:

   # list directories
   rclone lsd <remote_name>:
   
   rclone ls <remote_name>:
   

4. To download a file:

# -P or --progress and -v flag for verbose output
rclone -P -v copy <remote_name>:file_name.txt .