Google Drive Sync

This is a simple cli application that allows syncing files in Google Drive to local storage and vice versa, using Google Drive API.

Requirements

• Python (Recent)
• A Google Cloud Project with
  • Google Drive API enabled
  • OAuth enabled

Client secrets are to be created by the user of this app. Save the downloadable OAuth credentials provided to you as credentials.json in the project directory

Setup

Quick setup for unix like systems

git clone https://github.com/diwasrimal/google-drive-sync.git
cd google-drive-sync
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 gsync.py /Documents/backup ~/Documents/backup fetch

Help

$ python3 gsync.py -h
usage: gsync.py [-h] [--export-pdf] remotepath localpath {fetch,push}

Syncing tool for google drive

positional arguments:
  remotepath
  localpath
  {fetch,push}

options:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  --export-pdf  Export files like google docs, slides as pdf while fetching

Author: Diwas Rimal, License: MIT

Working

• remotepath is the path of your drive folder. 'My Drive' is considered root (/). So a folder My Drive/Documents/exam is just /Documents/exam

• localpath is the relative or absolute path of local folders.

• fetch downloads new or modifies outdated local files.

• push uploads or updates local files to drive.

• A special file .gsyncignore can be used to ignore files that you don't want to upload to drive. For example the file can have

.DS_Store
code
secret.json

The listed name matches files or folders, so 'code' could ignore a folder named 'code'. Listing filepaths won't work.

TODO

• Nothing right now :)