gdown vs SafeArchive

gdown

Google Drive Public File Downloader when Curl/Wget Fails (by wkentaro)

SafeArchive

Securely backup and manage your files locally and in the cloud. Available for: Windows, macOS, Linux (desktop, server) (by KafetzisThomas)

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gdown		SafeArchive
	Project
8	Mentions	1
3,917	Stars	40
-	Growth	-
8.4	Activity	8.8
12 days ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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gdown

Posts with mentions or reviews of gdown. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-13.

Downloading from Google Drive by links
1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 13 Mar 2023

Try https://github.com/wkentaro/gdown
Anyone having issues with Vast.ai and gdown command?
1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 24 Nov 2022
Grabbing files from Google Drive
2 projects | /r/opendirectories | 13 Aug 2022
What is the best way to train on a large dataset on Colab when the data location is on Google Drive?
1 project | /r/learnmachinelearning | 13 Mar 2022

I'm using Google Colab Pro and the dataset itself is on a shared (enterprise) Google Drive, I tried to use cp to copy the folder to my local Colab storage but it seems to be as slow as pointing my data loader to the mounted Drive, and gdown has a maximum capacity of 50 files for shared folders.
Access denied with the following error: Tacotron2 Model Downloaded Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to ‘Anyone with the link’, or have had many accesses. You may still be able to access the file from the browser: anyone knows how to solve this?
1 project | /r/VocalSynthesis | 17 Feb 2022
Info: Possibly helpful download tool for Google Drive
1 project | /r/tv_bunny | 20 Oct 2021
Upload dataset to Colab
1 project | /r/learnmachinelearning | 28 Aug 2021

Apparently it's common, just found a github about it : https://github.com/wkentaro/gdown/issues/43
“Download failed— network error” from SONY Google Drive mega thread.
1 project | /r/Roms | 16 Mar 2021

jdownloader2 or gdown

SafeArchive

Posts with mentions or reviews of SafeArchive. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

SafeArchive: A File Backup Tool
1 project | /r/Python | 15 May 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gdown and SafeArchive you can also consider the following projects:

GDriveFS - An innovative FUSE wrapper for Google Drive.

PyDrive - Google Drive API Python wrapper library

GAM - command line management for Google Workspace [Moved to: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM]

pynps - A cli Linux and Windows Nopaystation client made with python and wget. Works with PSvita, PSP, PSMobile and PS3 packages

GAM - command line management for Google Workspace

ArchiveBox - 🗃 The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... [Moved to: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox]

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files