drive-sync is a simple command line application for syncing a local folder with your Google Drive account. drive-sync will pull files from your Google Drive account to a local directory and watch for changes. It currently handles file creation, deletion and modification. If you create/edit/delete a local file in a synced directory, those changes will be pushed to Google Drive. Subsequently, if you do the same in Google Drive, those changes will be pulled to the synced directory.
drive-sync attempts to detect local file mime-types and maps them to corresponding Google Drive mime-types so that you can preview most of your documents in Google Drive.
- Clone the repository to your machine and change into it.
git clone https://github.com/joshua-arts/google-drive-syncer
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Install bundler if you don't already have it. Then bundle the project by typing
bundle. -
Get credentials for the Google Drive API. To do this, go to the Google Drive API Ruby Quickstart and complete step one, a to h (don't worry about the other steps). Once you've downloaded your
client_secret.jsonfile, drag it into thegoogle-drive-syncerdirectory you cloned in step one -
To setup the
drive-synccommand, you need to add it to your path. From inside thegoogle-drive-syncerdirectory, run:
export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)
- You should now be able to run the command. The first time you run it, you'll have to link it to a specific Google Account. Run
drive-sync --path "/path/to/directory/to/sync", copy and paste the generated link into your browser, authenticate a Google Account, and paste the generated token back into the terminal. The token will be saved locally and you won't need to authenticate again.
To start syncing a directory with Google Drive, start drive-sync like so:
drive-sync --path "/path/to/directory/to/sync"
If this directory does not exist, drive-sync will automatically create it for you. If it does exist, drive-sync will prompt you to confirm that you are okay with it possibly overwriting the content in it.
drive-sync runs in a separate background process. To stop syncing, simply run:
drive-sync --stop
By default, drive-sync checks for changes every ten seconds. In order to sync this, when you start drive-sync, you can set the --sync-delay option.
drive-sync --path "/path/to/directory/to/sync" --sync-delay 30
Lastly, if you don't want to start drive-sync in a detached process, you can start it in test mode.
drive-sync --path "/path/to/directory/to/sync" --test
drive-sync uses the MIT License.
We are not responsible for any loss of files or data both locally and in Google Drive.