Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover

Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover is a tool for searching, finding and removing duplicate files in your Google Drive.

Privacy & Data Safety

Your data is totally safe because

• the program uses your own Google Drive App and your own Google account authentication.
• it only reads and changes files metadata. No file content reading, exporting, downloading or deletion.
• it uses soft deletion which means it trashes duplicate files instead of deleting them permanently.

Note:

• If you need to delete the trashed files and release Google Drive space immediately, login to your Google Drive, go to Bin, and delete selected files or empty entire bin.
• You need to refresh the browser page to see any change in Google Drive storage space.

Prerequisite: Google Account Setup

Basically, what we are doing here is that we are createing a Google Drive App for our own use. As far as I know, there is no such way that we just enable API access for our Google Drive and then, use some OAuth token to make APIs calls.

Please read Google Account Setup readme file for the details.

After successful setup, you will have OAuth credentials saved in a file named credentials.json. We need this file later.

Prerequisite: Program Execution Environment

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• Python 3.6 or higher version.

Installing Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover

To install Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover, follow these steps:

Download code

git clone [email protected]:TimeInvestor/gdrive-duplicate-remover.git

(optional) Configure Python virtual environment

If you want to use Python virtual environment for the project, please do so.

If you want to learn more about Python virtual environment, you could refer to https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/.

Install required Python libraries

cd gdrive-duplicate-remover
pip install google-api-python-client

Configuration

We need access (OAuth 2.0) credentials for the code to call Google Drive API. So put your saved credentials.json file at the root of the project folder.

Using Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover

To use Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover, follow these steps:

# Go to code folder
cd <path to gdrive-duplicate-remover>
# Run the main script
python main.py

Contributing to Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover

To contribute to Google Drive Duplicate Files Remover, follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b <branch_name>.
3. Make your changes and commit them: git commit -m '<commit_message>'
4. Push to the original branch: git push origin gdrive-duplicate-remover/<location>
5. Create the pull request.

Alternatively see the GitHub documentation on creating a pull request.

Contact

If you want to contact me you can reach me at [email protected].

License

This project uses the following license: MIT License.