Download Directly to Google Drive

[WatchAnd Learn]

try this maybe works (i don't know but it's beater than nothing , like rest of the comments are unfortunately )

- https://put.io/#pics
- sideCLOUDload: Send files from a url to "the cloud" without downloading.
- URL Droplet

 

[johnweb]

I'm not a tech genius or a programmer, but what it sounds like you guys want isn't as hard as it sounds. You would not have to give your Google credentials to the host server, all you would have to do is tell Google to allow the server to send a file. It would work just as easy and secure as it was for me to just now sign up for Android Central. I clicked register using Gmail, Google asked if it was ok, I chose a user name and done...that simple. I didn't even have to set up a password.

I believe that's all mircury#ac was talking about when he said that it's just an API flexibility issue.

Now,
Two issues I see with that:
1.Getting the host server, for the file that you want, to update so that it can actually talk with Google servers.
2. For pirated files, technically you would never touch them, Google would be the one to download it and would therefore be the one in trouble...

 

[theultimate1]

I don't intend on picking out on a dead old thread, but the original query still doesn't seem to be have been addressed.. satisfactorily.

I was searching for something similar, and I came across the following paragraph on pcworld.com:

A beta service called URL Droplet lets you send documents (such as PDFs and spreadsheets) found on Web pages directly to your Dropbox, no manual download necessary. Simply sign up for URL Droplet and authorize the service to access your Dropbox; URL Droplet uses the Dropbox API, which means the service never sees your account password. Next, paste a link to the online document, and click Save. The file will appear in Dropbox and sync across all your devices.

So, there is something for DropBox, as is also evident by WatchAnd Learn's post above. Surely, they must be a similar service for Google Drive too. I'm on the prowl, and will update here if I get something. In case someone else has already found something, please share the link to the service/plugin/add-on with us too. Share the love. Thanks

UPDATE: I found Save to Google Drive, a Chrome add-on, developed by Google itself... This does what the Thread OP asked for.

Now... only if there was a way to automate uploading of files from multiple direct links one by one to Google Drive. Aah, the joys of wishful thinking

 

[Insp_Gadget]

I don't intend on picking out on a dead old thread, but the original query still doesn't seem to be have been addressed.. satisfactorily.

I was searching for something similar, and I came across the following paragraph on pcworld.com:


So, there is something for DropBox, as is also evident by WatchAnd Learn's post above. Surely, they must be a similar service for Google Drive too. I'm on the prowl, and will update here if I get something. In case someone else has already found something, please share the link to the service/plugin/add-on with us too. Share the love. Thanks

UPDATE: I found Save to Google Drive, a Chrome add-on, developed by Google itself... This does what the Thread OP asked for.

Now... only if there was a way to automate uploading of files from multiple direct links one by one to Google Drive. Aah, the joys of wishful thinking

I have to assume from your post that you didn't actually read or understand all of this thread. All of the 3rd party URL transfer sites require you to give your credentials to them to access your cloud storage.

As I said repeatedly, in order to do what the OP wants, either Google would need to be given rights to act as the OP to transfer the file on his behalf, or the source website would need to be given the OP's Google credentials so that it could do the transfer (or as I said, a 3rd party website proxy would have to do the transfer, and require credentials for source and destination).

Nothing has changed. Just because people do not like the answer doesn't make it any less valid or true. Whatever protocol is used, a certain amount of trust must be given to one party or another in order to remove yourself from the transfer process. Unless something has fundamentally changed about how the Internet works, I stand by my answers.

 

[LeChuckThePirate]

I haven't tried droplet, the service you mention in previous posts, but if I understand it, it asks permission dropbox to allow them upload files ala facebook style. (I mean, this application is requesting blah blah blah)

If that's right, it isn't asking you for your credentials... what this kind of sites and apps do is redirect you to your provider (in this case Dropbox) sending an app-id (droplet in this case must have registered as an app previously on dropbox), so you authenticate WITH THEM, and then return a "token" to the "host" app that gives them permission to do what they listed you in the provider's access page.

If this is the case, YOU AREN'T PROVIDING YOUR LOGIN DATA TO DROPLET, you're just giving them access to send files to your dropbox, but your auth data has never been in their hands since you logged in at the redirected page to dropbox.

Again, if this is the case, it's a safe way to do things... your personal data isn't at stake.

Cheers!

 

[Insp_Gadget]

I suggest that anyone that wants to see what is required, go to URL Droplet and try it. You'll see that it will ask for your Dropbox credentials. You then have to go to Dropbox and grant permission for URL Droplet to access your Dropbox account.

Now there may be an API that can pass an authentication token back and forth, but the bottom line is that any service that can transfer files to your Dropbox account needs permission to do so.

If you're okay with that, then go for it.

 

[The Hustleman]

I think this is a great idea

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[Mike Guillery]

For those with a security concern regarding this, there doesn't seem to be a problem. I do this in Android daily. When I want to save to Google drive, from my Web Browser, I choose share menu pops up with the option to copy the web page to several locations, one being Google drive. The chosen page or file is then directly saved to Google drive, without first being downloaded to my computer. I also do this in Windows, when using Google's Browser, (slightly different menu choice, i.e. save as, rather than share). I would also like to do this on my Blackberry. I think the answer is to get Google's Web browser working on the Blackberry which after doing some research it seems to be possible. Just haven't tried it as I'm a Windows/Ubuntu long time user, also using Android for about a year, but new to Palm, so I proceed slowly making changes to it. In the next few days I will be trying it, and will let you know the result.

 

[Jakkas]

Yes yaar...
you are true...
Even I am finding whether such a feature is available on the net or not....
I couldn't find it till now but when you get it, defenitely post it here....
I even wonder that being in existance of all these IT intelligents on earth, how come an awesome feature like this isn't discovered yet...??..!!

 

[RobertMule1]

Project gutenberg has a fearture like this (eg:The Prince by Niccol? Machiavelli - Free Ebook). There is an option to send the book directly to your google drive but you have to give it permission. I guess it's a matter of time before similar things start popping up.

 

[patronanejo]

Everybody relax. It's here--and it's trustworthy.

What you are looking for is this little web app, courtesy of Amit Agarwal.

In case you don't read Wired, this application is powered by the Filepicker.io Mobile Library, which won last year's MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

It's only been up for a couple of weeks--try not to cook the servers.

 

[gakio12]

Sweet, thanks!

 

[Sarath Bhoothakulam]

just download UC Browser in cellphone.. That app have an option for offline download. One GB cloud space

 

[FloydianThe]

Hi gakio12

I was gonna give you the same solution as patronanejo. That webapp is the bomb! You are not confined to use only one cloud service like dropbox with this.

I was also in search of this same kind of app cuz even i wanted to download a file directly to my google drive as i too have broadband and 3G limitations.

But i wish to thank you too for starting this thread and although this took quite a while for ppl to understand exactly what it was you were looking for and then provide a solution, you finally did get it!

Cheers man!

 

[joe verderber]

I wrote an app to do just that a few months ago. - Works from your browser. Enjoy!

https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbw27LLYt69MrCAti2PvXl6wg472nQhKvHHE4pHJxPvCgF5_7bqp/exec

 

[wang_r1w2]

sorry to resurrect this thread but...
wait, is there now an app or script that can allow you to save files directly google drive?
I find it somewhat annoying that I cannot always directly edit some certatin filetypes from google drive on android, and I would like if there can be a way to directly save files to google drive so that I can conveniently view it on other synced devices, even if it means having to download it first and then upload.( I don't think adnroid chrome supports extensions/apps yet)(does google already give you an option for saving to drive in chrome?)
Also, I would think it cool to have a "Box Edit"https://app.box.com/download-box-edit/ style feature so I can edit any file and have it automatically sync, like quickoffice.

Basically, I would mainly like more cloud integration, especially the ability to save files directly to Drive.

That being said though, there are going to be some security-realated questions before this can be implemented.

 

[Quizer]

Hey,
I've just done that .. send it to your Gmail email account as attachment and in the email on the attatchment appears a GDrive icon for transfere!!
Your home wrk is to find easy and fast tools (I tried b4, bt nt n my mind) to send a link as attatchment for email .. try compress online sites and there other ways

 

[Glenn Android]

Amit's web app is well needed, and it seems to work for small files, but maybe not for big ones? At least I was able to transfer one file about half a GB to my Google Drive, but when I tried a 2.9 GB zip file, it produces an error (repeatedly). Or it may be something other than the size. I also wasn't able to transfer a _public_ Dropbox URL file to Google Drive, it told me it was an invalid URL, which it isn't. Can't find any documentation of any limits, etc. that might explain these issues.

 

[joe verderber]

I wrote a script that does exactly what you're looking for. https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbw27LLYt69MrCAti2PvXl6wg472nQhKvHHE4pHJxPvCgF5_7bqp/exec

 

[Glenn Android]

I wrote a script that does exactly what you're looking for. https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbw27LLYt69MrCAti2PvXl6wg472nQhKvHHE4pHJxPvCgF5_7bqp/exec

Perhaps it does, or perhaps it was malware you wrote back in July. How can I see the source before I execute it?