itcarroll/google-drive-migrator

Google Drive Migrator

Google Drive Migrator

Google Drive Migrator is a Python script that recursively copies the contents of a Google Drive folder into another folder on Google Drive using the Google Drive SDK.

Note: Before continuing you should consider whether Google Takeout meets your needs.

Prerequisites

The project uses Python 2.7 and pip.

1. Grab the code git clone [email protected]:socialsquare/google-drive-migrator.git

2. Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Get a Client ID and Secret Key

   1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/

   2. Create a project

   3. Go to APIs & auth -> APIs and enable Drive API

   4. Go to APIs & auth -> Credentials and then Create new Client ID and create a Web application, with a callback URI http://localhost:8080/.

      You should now see a Client ID and a Secret Key.

      Notice that both Redirect URIs and JavaScript origins are set to http://localhost:8080/, if not, edit the setting and reset the secret.

   5. Click Download JSON and save the JSON file as client_secrets.json in the google-drive-migrator-folder.

Running

Run

python copy_folder.py GDRIVE_FOLDER_ID_FROM GDRIVE_FOLDER_ID_TO

, where GDRIVE_FOLDER_ID_FROM and GDRIVE_FOLDER_ID_TO are Google Drive folder ids of the folder to be copied from and the folder to be copied to respectively e.g.

python copy_folder.py 'AaaadadOIDSAD22323' 'BDK-LFJfkajsadJAd231j'

the Google Drive SDK will automatically open your webbrowser where you have to login to your Google account and authenticate the app you created. The authentication is saved in saved_credentials.json so that you don't have to login on subsequent uses.

When you have authenticated in the browser (it shows a boring page with the text "the request has been authorized"), the script will start copying the folder.

Best wishes! Malthe from Socialsquare