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Download Files from a Google Drive Folder

Source: R/download_google_drive.R
download_google_drive.Rd

Downloads all files or filtered files from a public Google Drive folder to a local directory.

Usage

download_google_drive(
  url,
  path = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  overwrite = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

url

Character string. The Google Drive folder URL or ID. Supports standard folder URLs (e.g., "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/FOLDER_ID") or direct folder IDs.

path

Character string or NULL. The local directory path for downloads. If NULL (default), uses the current working directory. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created.

title

Character vector or NULL. Patterns to match against file names for filtering. If provided, only files whose names contain any of these patterns (case-insensitive) are downloaded. If NULL (default), all files are downloaded.

overwrite

Logical. If TRUE (default), overwrites existing files. If FALSE, skips files that already exist.

verbose

Logical. If TRUE (default), prints detailed progress messages.

Value

Character string. The path to the directory where files were downloaded.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Download all files to current directory
download_google_drive("https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rgxfiw")

# Download to a specific directory with filtering
download_google_drive(
  url = "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rgxfiw",
  path = "./my_data",
  title = c("report", ".csv"),
  overwrite = FALSE
)
} # }