drive_download: Download a Drive file
In googledrive: An Interface to Google Drive

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

This function downloads a file from Google Drive. Native Google file types, such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, must be exported to a conventional local file type. This can be specified:

explicitly via type
implicitly via the file extension of path
not at all, i.e. rely on the built-in default

To see what export file types are even possible, see the Drive API documentation or the result of drive_about()$exportFormats. The returned dribble includes a local_path column.

drive_download(
  file,
  path = NULL,
  type = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = deprecated()
)

`file`	Something that identifies the file of interest on your Google Drive. Can be a name or path, a file id or URL marked with `as_id()`, or a `dribble`.
`path`	Character. Path for output file. If absent, the default file name is the file's name on Google Drive and the default location is working directory, possibly with an added file extension.
`type`	Character. Only consulted if `file` is a native Google file. Specifies the desired type of the exported file. Will be processed via `drive_mime_type()`, so either a file extension like `"pdf"` or a full MIME type like `"application/pdf"` is acceptable.
`overwrite`	A logical scalar. If local `path` already exists, do you want to overwrite it?
`verbose`	This logical argument to individual googledrive functions is deprecated. To globally suppress googledrive messaging, use `options(googledrive_quiet = TRUE)` (the default behaviour is to emit informational messages). To suppress messaging in a more limited way, use the helpers `local_drive_quiet()` or `with_drive_quiet()`.

An object of class dribble, a tibble with one row per file.

Download files, in the Drive API documentation.

# Target one of the official example files
(src_file <- drive_example_remote("chicken_sheet"))

# Download Sheet as csv, explicit type
downloaded_file <- drive_download(src_file, type = "csv")

# See local path to new file
downloaded_file$local_path

# Download as csv, type implicit in file extension
drive_download(src_file, path = "my_csv_file.csv")

# Download with default name and type (xlsx)
drive_download(src_file)

# Clean up
unlink(c("chicken_sheet.csv", "chicken_sheet.xlsx", "my_csv_file.csv"))