🟦 HOWTO: Download "private/restricted" files from Google Drive, including downloading Directories, SubDirectories and Files

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This guide shows how you can download a private/restricted file from google drive to your app, using a google apps script web app. Expanding on this, it also demonstrates how to download a directory structure from google drive and replicate it on an android device.

Notes:

  • requires knowledge of google apps script creation and publishing
  • and before anyone starts....it is purposefully intended to ask the user for read/write permissions when compiled
  • I realise that I may only need to ask for read permission in Android 11
  • the missing Stage 2 has now been completed
Is it possible to see images from the spreadsheet google?
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Nice, but encoding the bytes to Base64 is not a good idea, it increases the size much. It's better encoding in a hexadecimal format which a little decreases the size. Also compressing the data before sending it using any Deflate/Zip method and decompressing in the app using JS or some tool would be good.

#3

Remember that you can always present your solution for downloading files from google drive here.

Demonstration how to do it in practice. It will be more helpful.

#4

Yes, that was my suggestion:

I cannot demonstrate it, I'm doing other work and not active anymore.
If anyone felt my behavior is rude, then sorry for that :slightly_smiling_face:

#5

If you have a better / different method then I am all ears! More the merrier.

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