salvatorenitopi/uds

Unlimited Drive Storage by splitting binary files into base64

UDS : Unlimited Drive Storage

UDS is a tool to split files into base64 parts small enough to fit inside a Google Doc. Compatible with Python 3+.

Features

• Store and list files in UDS format
• Reassemble files to their original format

Logic

• Size of the encoded file is always larger than the original. Base64 encodes binary data to a ratio of about 4:3.
• A single google doc can store about a million characters. This is around 710KB of base64 encoded data.
• Some experiments with multithreading the uploads, but there was no significant performance increase.

Speed Comparisons

Size	Drive Web Upload	Multithreaded Upload	Normal Upload
24,512KB	21.65s	38.01s	136.86s

Authentication

1. Head to Google's API page and enable the Drive API
2. Download the configuration file as 'client_secret.json' to the UDS directory

Upload

> python uds.py push Ubuntu.Desktop.16.04.iso
Ubuntu.Desktop.16.04.iso will required 543 Docs to store.
Created parent folder with ID 1fc6JGpX6vUWiwflL1jBxM1YpuMHFAms8
Successfully Uploaded Ubuntu.Desktop.16.04.iso: [██████████████████████████████] 100%

This will take a file from disk, convert it to UDS format and store in drive.

Multithreading can be disabled by using push --disable-multi.

Convert

> python uds.py convert 1SVgBJWHkmQ8BYwccNelNNRYeI8BWTvY5WEdSiH24s34

Downloads a file stored in your Drive, converts it to UDS format and reuploads.

List

> python uds.py list
Name                      Size   Encoded    ID
------------------------  -----  ---------  ---------------------------------
Ubuntu.Desktop.16.04.iso  810 MB  1.1 GB     1fc6JGpX6vUWiwflL1jBxM1YpuMHFAms8

Download

> python uds.py pull 
Downloaded Ubuntu.Desktop.16.04.iso: [██████████████████████████████] 100%