Overview: How to Download Google Drive Files from the Linux Command Line

If you need to update Claymore remotely (i.e., there is no physical access to your mining rig’s USB ports), the following options allow you to download Google Drive files via the command line in 1 line of code.

Note: These scenarios work on publicly shared Google Drive links, where no user authentication is required.

Option 1. Download “Non-Large” Google Drive Files

$ wget --no-check-certificate 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID' -O FILENAME

Where: -O = name of file to write (save) the download
source:: https://gist.github.com/iamtekeste/3cdfd0366ebfd2c0d805#gistcomment-2297114

Option 2. Download Very Large Google Drive Files

For large files, google drive requires a download confirm code, which is stored in a cookie. See this StackOverflow solution for details. Here is the command line directive:

$ wget --load-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=$(wget --quiet --save-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate 'https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID' -O- | sed -rn 's/.*confirm=([0-9A-Za-z_]+).*/\1\n/p')&id=FILEID" -O FILENAME && rm -rf /tmp/cookies.txt

source: https://gist.github.com/iamtekeste/3cdfd0366ebfd2c0d805#gistcomment-2316906

Option 3. Download Very Large Google Drive Files Via a Bash Command

$ nano  ~/.bash_aliases

function gdrive_download () {
  CONFIRM=$(wget --quiet --save-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=$1" -O- | sed -rn 's/.*confirm=([0-9A-Za-z_]+).*/\1\n/p')
  wget --load-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=$CONFIRM&id=$1" -O $2
  
rm -rf /tmp/cookies.txt
}

Usage:

$ gdrive_download long_google_drive_file_id filename.ext

source: https://gist.github.com/iamtekeste/3cdfd0366ebfd2c0d805#gistcomment-2359248