a quick ugly snippete to download a gdrive file programmatically

	#!/usr/bin/python
	import httplib2
	import pprint
	from apiclient.discovery import build
	from apiclient.http import MediaFileUpload
	from oauth2client.client import OAuth2WebServerFlow
	# Copy your credentials from the console
	CLIENT_ID = ''
	CLIENT_SECRET = ''
	# Check https://developers.google.com/drive/scopes for all available scopes
	OAUTH_SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'
	# Redirect URI for installed apps
	REDIRECT_URI = 'urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob'
	# Path to the file to upload
	FILENAME = 'document.txt'
	# Run through the OAuth flow and retrieve credentials
	flow = OAuth2WebServerFlow(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, OAUTH_SCOPE, REDIRECT_URI)
	authorize_url = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()
	print 'Go to the following link in your browser: ' + authorize_url
	code = raw_input('Enter verification code: ').strip()
	credentials = flow.step2_exchange(code)
	# Create an httplib2.Http object and authorize it with our credentials
	http = httplib2.Http()
	http = credentials.authorize(http)
	drive_service = build('drive', 'v2', http=http)
	from apiclient import errors
	# ...
	def print_file(service, file_id):
	"""Print a file's metadata.
	Args:
	service: Drive API service instance.
	file_id: ID of the file to print metadata for.
	"""
	try:
	file = service.files().get(fileId=file_id).execute()
	print 'Title: %s' % file['title']
	print 'MIME type: %s' % file['mimeType']
	except errors.HttpError, error:
	print 'An error occurred: %s' % error
	def download_file(service, drive_file):
	"""Download a file's content.
	Args:
	service: Drive API service instance.
	drive_file: Drive File instance.
	Returns:
	File's content if successful, None otherwise.
	"""
	download_url = drive_file.get('downloadUrl')
	if download_url:
	resp, content = service._http.request(download_url)
	if resp.status == 200:
	print 'Status: %s' % resp
	return content
	else:
	print 'An error occurred: %s' % resp
	return None
	else:
	# The file doesn't have any content stored on Drive.
	return None
	a = open('download', 'wb')
	a.write(download_file(drive_service, drive_service.files().get(fileId='0BxL9MTWmR1kISG04eThNcGJlcFU').execute()))

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