Can viewers download files on Google Drive

How to download protected/view only files from google drive ?


Diwas Poudel Nov 4 2021 Fix 0 comment

Can viewers download files on Google Drive

Also, click on the 3 dots located at the top right corner. Then click on Details

Can viewers download files on Google Drive

Steps to Download protected/view-only pdf files from google drive?

1. Open or Preview Any view-only or protected files from google drive.

2. Open Developer Console.

If you are previewing in Google Chrome or Firefox

Press Shift + Ctrl + J ( on Windows / Linux) or Option + + J (on Mac)

If you are previewing in Microsoft Edge

Press Shift + Ctrl + I

If you are previewing in Apple Safari

Press Option + + C

Then you will find yourself inside the developer tools.

3 Navigate to the "Console" tab.

4 Paste below code and press Enter

let jspdf = document.createElement( "script" );
jspdf.onload = function () {
let pdf = new jsPDF();
let elements = document.getElementsByTagName( "img" );
for ( let i in elements) {
let img = elements[i];
if (!/^blob:/.test(img.src)) {
continue ;
}
let canvasElement = document.createElement( 'canvas' );
let con = canvasElement.getContext( "2d" );
canvasElement.width = img.width;
canvasElement.height = img.height;
con.drawImage(img, 0, 0,img.width, img.height);
let imgData = canvasElement.toDataURL( "image/jpeg" , 1.0);
pdf.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG' , 0, 0);
pdf.addPage();
}
pdf.save( "download.pdf" );
};
jspdf.src = 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jspdf/1.3.2/jspdf.min.js' ;
document.body.appendChild(jspdf);

as shown below:

Can viewers download files on Google Drive

5. Now, the pdf file start to downloads.

Note that it may take a long time for downloading if the size of the pdf is large because each page in the pdf is generated in the form of an image. Also, it doesn't guarantee the content quality of pdf remains the same.

So, if you want a high-quality pdf then try zooming out the pdf and then apply from steps 2 and below.

Technical Concept:

On-page load each Image tag on the page is search, and
if the image is not found then continue finding the Image tag on the next page of the pdf.
Else if found: then with the help of Canvas those images are created with the drawImage() function and here we are creating images in JPEG format and later these images are added back to pdf instance by addImage() function. After that, with the help of addPage() new page is created and the same repeats until reaching the end of the page and finally pdf is downloaded.
And this is all possible by the use of the jsPDF library which is provided by Cloudflare. Actually, this jsPDF library is Javascript open-source library for generating PDF files.

Steps to Download protected/view-only video files from google drive?

You can even download protected/view-only video files share with you by someone else. Here are the steps:
1 Preview the video you want to download
2 Play the video.
3 Then Press Ctrl + Shift + C keyboard combination.
4 Then hover over the image and click on it.
5 Then you will navigate to the 'Elements' tab in the developer console.
6 Click inside the content of src tag and then in dropdown select "Open in a new tab"
Now you will get navigate to new windows with video.
7 Click on 3 dots present in the lower right corner and click on "Download"
Now the video starts to download.

Steps to Download protected/view-only google docs files from google drive?

You can easily download protected/view-only google docs files from google drive easily with below steps:
Method 1: Converting into Mobile View Mode
1 Open Protected/view-only google docs.
2 Look at the Url of google docs you will find '/edit' in the URL. Just replace it will '/mobilebasic' and press Enter.
Eg:
From
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FF_J3nY5WaA_4KxyDbGAmwvjSEq_dBWw3ehfva3k9S8/edit
To
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FF_J3nY5WaA_4KxyDbGAmwvjSEq_dBWw3ehfva3k9S8/mobilebasic
3 Press CTRL + S from keyboard combination and replace extension from .html to .doc and click on "Save" button.
4 Hurry google docs file is downloaded to your laptop/computer.
Can viewers download files on Google Drive
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