driveload

Upload file from internet to Google Drive using GitHub Actions

Usage

For uploading a file to Google Drive, make a commit in this repository with following command:

git commit --allow-empty -m "driveload: example.com/path/to/file/url/thing.txt file_name.txt"

This commit message is parsed as: driveload: file_url file_name

File on given url is saved in Google Drive in driveload folder with file_name as name.

Example commit:

git commit --allow-empty -m "driveload: https://speed.hetzner.de/1GB.bin test_file_1GB.bin"

Setup

1. Setup Google Drive client on your local machine. This will be used later. Follow this: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive

2. Setup GitHub Repository with this action

• Fork / Copy this repo in your GitHub account
• From your Google Drive client folder (which you must have got in step 1), copy content of .gd/credentials.json file.
• Add this copied josn as secret in your fork repo with name DRIVE_CRED. Enclose this json with single quoat ('), like '{"client_id": "...", "client_secret": "...", "refresh_token": "..."}'

Credits

• GitHub Actions
• https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel (file downloader)
• https://github.com/odeke-em/drive (Google Drive client)