Google Drive Support Request (Similar to YouTube?)

[innocenceisdeath]

Hi,

Please would you add support for Google Drive video previews. It looks like it may operate similar to YouTube.

$ youtube-dl --verbose 'https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwi6Ha03myF1aGVweVBoemdlU3c/preview?pli=1'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwi6Ha03myF1aGVweVBoemdlU3c/preview?pli=1']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'utf-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.22
[debug] Python version 3.3.3 - Linux-3.12.8-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] preview?pli=1: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] preview?pli=1: Downloading webpage
[generic] preview?pli=1: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwi6Ha03myF1aGVweVBoemdlU3c/preview?pli=1; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 494, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 156, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 353, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwi6Ha03myF1aGVweVBoemdlU3c/preview?pli=1; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

[ghost]

I second that. Wish Google Drive support.

example URL https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9g_WLKRYa99M3VFQlJrN0dXa3M&usp=sharing

[haasn]

I would also greatly benefit this. youtube-dl supports dropbox, and it's my favorite way of actually being able to download dropbox things.

Users often decide to send me test files or other things related to my development via Google Drive, and it's always a big hassle to guide them through the process of re-uploading it to somewhere that actually works.

It would be really neat if youtube-dl could support Google Drive links natively so this would no longer be a problem.

That said, I think this may be slightly out of scope of youtube-dl, at least in terms of its typical intent as being used for video sharing platforms. Maybe youtube-dl could be generalized, or maybe this would be better off as a separate project?

[maurrubio]

Hello,

Youtube-dl is great but I don't understand why it has support for so many sites but not yet supports Google Drive? I use a parser that I developed myself and I know that is pretty similar to YouTube, actually even simpler.

Would be great if this support is added.
Thanks

[haasn]

Thanks for this!