download_google_drive: Download Files from a Google Drive Folder

In tutorial.helpers: Helper Functions for Creating Tutorials

Download Files from a Google Drive Folder

Description

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

## Not run: 
# 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
)

## End(Not run)

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