alexp11223/gdrive_link_transformer

Converts Google Drive sharing links to direct links. Clipboard or CLI.

Generates direct Google Drive links (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=<ID>) from standard sharing links (https://drive.google.com/file/d/<ID>/view or https://drive.google.com/open?id=<ID>).

The script takes the link from the clipboard, checks if it is a Google Drive sharing link and copies direct link to the clipboard, shows notification.

Also it can be used as a normal CLI app taking the link from the arguments and outputting the result.

Should work on Windows, Linux and (not tested) Mac OS.

Usage

Download the binaries for your OS from the Releases page or see the section below to run from source code.

For Linux you may need to install one of the packages listed here https://pyperclip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#not-implemented-error for clipboard management, such as sudo apt-get install xclip.

Run gdrive-direct-link (gdrive-direct-link.exe for Windows) when you have a Google Drive sharing link in the clipboard, or gdrive-direct-link https://drive.google.com/file/d/qwe123456/view in terminal.

Running from source code

Requirements:

• Python 3.7+
• poetry

Install dependencies by executing poetry install. For Linux use poetry install --extras dbus (unless you need just the CLI mode).

Use PyTest to run tests: poetry run pytest or in PyCharm.

Use poetry run gdrive-direct-link to run the script as described in the Usage section.

Building binary

Run poetry run pyinstaller gdrive-direct-link.spec

The result will be in the dist dir: dist/gdrive-direct-link/gdrive-direct-link