Downloads data from Google Drive Storage to Local Filesystem¶

The Google Drive is used to store daily use data, including documents and photos. Google Drive has built-in mechanisms to facilitate group work e.g. document editor, file sharing mechanisms.

Prerequisite Tasks¶

GCSToLocalFilesystemOperator¶

GoogleDriveToLocalOperator allows you to download data from Google Drive to local filesystem.

Below is an example of using this operator to download file from Google Drive to Local Filesystem.

airflow/providers/google/cloud/example_dags/example_gdrive_to_local.py[source]

download_from_gdrive_to_local = GoogleDriveToLocalOperator(
    task_id="download_from_gdrive_to_local",
    folder_id=FOLDER_ID,
    file_name=FILE_NAME,
    output_file=OUTPUT_FILE,
)

Reference¶

For further information, look at:

Google Drive API Documentation