Download from a Google Drive shareable link

Hi!

You can click get shareable link and then replace the:

https://www.dropbox.com/xxxxx/myfile.png?dl=0

with

https://www.dropbox.com/xxxxx/myfile.png?dl=1

Then you can use a normal reader in FME - paste the url and it should work

Hi @philippeb,

As @sigtill has suggested, if you want to go the shareable link route, you will need to use Dropbox because Google Drive uses Object ID. Fortunately, you do not have to share your credentials for other users to download the same file as it can be found using the Object ID. The only requirement for this to work is that the user running the workspace has their own Google account that has been authenticated as a web connection in FME, and that the files have been been made accessible in the Share Settings.

For example, I have shared the following PNG image (object ID: 16vqrhPtSIQwB5ytut082W6XRqgBBjrf2) on my Google Drive - you should be able to run the workspace with your own credentials as the file is accessible by anyone on the internet (this should work with the other share settings as well).

If you need this workspace to be dynamic, you could use two GoogleDriveConnector's. The first one uses List Google Drive Action to obtain of all object ID's inside the shared folder and the second to download all of the files. I provided an example of this on this forum post if you are interested in seeing an example.

Hope that helps.

googledriveconnection.fmw

Sorry! I read Dropbox - not Google Earth - dont know why. Happily @chrisatsafe came to the rescue!

Very nice to see that I can do that with GoogleDriveConnector! I don't want people loosing time with configurations so I'll use Dropbox. Thanks a lot!

No idea what you're talking about! LoL Thanks a lot for your other answer though :)