Command-line tool

gdown

brew/gdown

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Google Drive Public File Downloader when Curl/Wget Fails

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

pipx install gdown

macOS

brew install gdown
pipx install gdown

Linux

pipx install gdown

Download a file from a URL

gdown url

Download using a file ID

gdown file_id

Download with fuzzy file ID extraction (also works with <https://docs.google.com> links)

gdown --fuzzy url

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• File storage

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