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Download Google Drive Files

download_googledrive_files.Rd

For a given Google Drive folder this function will find and download all files matching a given pattern.

Usage

download_googledrive_files(
  key_path,
  drive_path,
  search_pattern,
  MIME_type = NULL,
  out_path
)

Arguments

key_path

character path to Google authentication key

drive_path

character The Google drive folder path

search_pattern

character A search pattern for files in the Google drive

MIME_type

character Google Drive file type, file extension, or MIME type.

out_path

character The local file directory for files to be downloaded to

Value

a character vector of files downloaded

Details

Note: This relies on the googledrive::drive_ls() function which uses a search function and is not deterministic when recursively searching. Please pay attention to what is returned.

See also

googledrive::drive_ls()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  download_googledrive_files(
  key_path = here::here("./key.json"),
  drive_path = "https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/asdjfnasiffas8ef7y7y89rf",
  search_pattern = ".*\\.xlsx",
  out_path = here::here("data/project_data/")
  )
} # }