# gdown mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, Nix installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gdown in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:gdown ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install gdown ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install gdown ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: net/gdown/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install gdown ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: gdown from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#gdown ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: gdown from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gdown - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 6.1.0 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Google Drive Public File Downloader when Curl/Wget Fails - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Lizenz:** MIT - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-31T16:11:54Z - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - gdown (cli) - gdown (Alias) ## Abhängigkeiten - certifi - python@3.14 ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf all ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-04 - Manager-Version: 6.1.0 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-05-31 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/wkentaro/gdown - Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung gdown is a Python command-line tool and library for downloading public Google Drive files and folders in cases where ordinary curl or wget downloads hit Google Drive confirmation pages, awkward share-link formats, or export flows. ### Projektgeschichte The official repository was created in 2015 under wkentaro/gdown and describes the project as a Google Drive public file and folder downloader. Its README positions it explicitly as a tool for the gap left by curl and wget on Google Drive URLs, later expanding to folder downloads, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides export formats, resumable transfers, cookies, proxies, and a Python API. By the 5.x and 6.x release series, gdown had become both a CLI and a reusable Python package, with installation documented through pip and uv and with examples for direct file IDs, shared links, recursive folders, JSON listing, cached downloads, and arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS URLs. ### Adoptionsgeschichte The repository's packaging metadata and README badges show distribution through PyPI, while the input package facts show availability through Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, and Nix. The official GitHub repository also has several thousand stars, reflecting broad use beyond a single package manager. ### Wie es verwendet wird Common usage is to paste a Google Drive share URL or file ID into the gdown CLI, optionally adding output paths, resume mode, folder mode, export formats, or cookie support. Python users can call gdown.download, gdown.download_folder, or cached_download from scripts and data-processing workflows. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren For package and data workflow users, gdown matters because it turns a web-app download flow into a scriptable artifact fetch. It is common in machine-learning examples, reproducible notebooks, CI scripts, and package recipes that need to pull large public Drive assets without teaching curl about Google's confirmation pages. ### Zeitleiste - 2015: Official GitHub repository created. - 2024: v5.2.0 published in the 5.x release line. - 2026: v6.0.0 and v6.1.0 published, continuing active maintenance. ### Related projects - gdown is related to curl and wget as a specialized downloader for Google Drive URLs, and to other Google Drive CLI clients such as glotlabs/gdrive when OAuth-backed Drive management rather than public-file download is needed. ### Quellen - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise Für gdown wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat. ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** gdown - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - gdown - 5.2.0+dfsg-2+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: gdown from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Google Drive public file downloader | https://github.com/wkentaro/gdown - Nix - gdown: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: gdown from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - MacPorts - gdown: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/gdown/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/de/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://pkg.so/de/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [python@3.14](https://pkg.so/de/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gdrive-downloader](https://pkg.so/de/brew/gdrive-downloader/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, file-transfer, google-drive, networking. - [magic-wormhole](https://pkg.so/de/brew/magic-wormhole/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, file-transfer, networking, python. - [airshare](https://pkg.so/de/brew/airshare/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, file-transfer, networking, python. - [ipget](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ipget/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, file-transfer, networking. - [pferd](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pferd/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, networking, python. - [speedtest-cli](https://pkg.so/de/brew/speedtest-cli/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, networking, python. - [lftp](https://pkg.so/de/brew/lftp/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, file-transfer, networking. - [croc](https://pkg.so/de/brew/croc/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, file-transfer, networking. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gdown.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gdown.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph