# Accessing file from google drive

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accessing-file-from-google-drive/30667
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question, package
**Created:** [November 3, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accessing-file-from-google-drive/30667 "2019-11-03T21:59:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![NITISH\_KUMAR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nitish_kumar/32/10546_2.png) [@NITISH\_KUMAR](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NITISH_KUMAR)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accessing-file-from-google-drive/30667/1 "2019-11-03T21:59:59Z")

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Hi everyone!

I am new to Julia and would appreciate if you could tell us the way to access the file from google drive

say if link is: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v66IQLWxr6aPfrFJlypzecNRXzU\_GC24Toj8cTM/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v66IQLWxr6aPfrFJlypzecNRXzU_GC24Toj8cTM/edit?usp=sharing)

Thank you 🙂

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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accessing-file-from-google-drive/30667/2 "2019-11-04T06:45:18Z")

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AFAIK Google Drive has its own API:

> **[Visão geral da API Google Drive
  
  |  Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/about-sdk?hl=pt-br)**

I am not sure there is a Julia package for this, but there seem to be a lot of scripts available you can just run as an external program:

[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/running-external-programs/](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/running-external-programs/)

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### Author: ![Wen-Wei\_Tseng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/wen-wei_tseng/32/28839_2.png) [@Wen-Wei\_Tseng](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Wen-Wei_Tseng)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accessing-file-from-google-drive/30667/3 "2020-06-01T08:48:26Z")

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There is a package for the job [https://github.com/tejasvaidhyadev/GoogleDrive.jl](https://github.com/tejasvaidhyadev/GoogleDrive.jl)