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An open source Linux client for Google Drive

by g3orge on 1/17/13, 6:49 PM with 49 comments

  • by zx2c4 on 1/17/13, 8:15 PM

    A quick search for "google drive fuse" reveals a better approach to this...

    https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/

    https://github.com/jcline/fuse-google-drive

    Didn't get much attention when it was posted here 267 days ago:

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3887308

  • by jtanderson on 1/17/13, 8:45 PM

    I've actually been using Insynq (https://www.insynchq.com/) with some pretty good success. I especially love how it handles having multiple drive accounts; the different Apps accounts can get kinda hairy.

  • by georgemcbay on 1/17/13, 8:07 PM

    I've been using grive for a few months on a few different Linux boxes, including some running on ARM/Linux.

    It works really well in my experience. Not quite as slick as the install-and-forget-it nature of Google Drive for Win/Mac, or Dropbox for Win/Mac/Linux, but it does what it says on the tin and I like that because it is fully FOSS I can easily take it with me on ARM/Linux.

  • by mtgx on 1/17/13, 8:14 PM

    Why hasn't Google made a client for Linux yet? It's been almost a year.

  • by notum on 1/18/13, 9:05 AM

    I hoped this was using the new API (https://developers.google.com/drive/) and that it can be forked to Duplicity in favor of the existing google docs api, however Gdrive is using google docs as well: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/

    Still, an interesting implementation and an alternative for python-gdata.

  • by samikc on 1/18/13, 11:35 AM

    We have created a project to access GDrive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and Box from web browser. We have some plans to open up the API in the future. If you guys think that's useful.

    https://www.addfs.com/

  • by pricees on 1/17/13, 10:17 PM

    If you are looking for a quick way to push files to your drive, I made this: https://github.com/pricees/google-drive-companion

  • by ggordan on 1/17/13, 8:07 PM

    This is really cool. I started writing something similar last year to get to know Python and when Google released their official client I stopped.

  • by acchow on 1/18/13, 2:55 AM

    Will this work on OS X? The mac client is horrible. My internet connection is rendered useless while files are uploading.

  • by OldSchool on 1/17/13, 8:00 PM

    Thanks for posting. This kind of stuff is why I read hacker news!

  • by dustin999 on 1/19/13, 3:51 AM

    Any advantages of this over Insync?