Google-drive – How to download Google Drawings files ‘raw’ from Google Drive

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When creating a file in Google Drawings, the file is saved in Google Drive. As "backup", I would like to download a drawing from Google Drive in a format that I can later upload again and open and edit in Google Drawings. Whenever I right-click the file and then choose Download in Google Drive, the file is converted to a .jpg and so is not editable anymore (also pixelated). This is even done if I select the file together with another file (a Google Docs file, for example). In this case a .zip is produced, but the Google Drawings file again comes out as a .jpg.

From within Google Drawings there is only the option to export the file to .pdf, .svg…, but not to download it in a file format that Google Drawings understands (I found online that the file ending might be .gdraw, but forcing that didn't help either).

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Google didn't published what file format they use for Google Document Editors files, including Google Drawings.

By the other hand, the file extensions used by Google Drive backup and sync and File Stream installable apps aren't real file versions of the related document, they only have the document URL, in a similar that .lnk files have the file path.

I think that the best that we could to is to analyze the web browser cache / application local storage to figured out how the required data is handled by the web browser but I'm not sure if that is allowed by the Google terms and conditions.

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I created a newbie guide for .svg into .emf conversion.

Google Drive Direct Download for Large Files

A cookie must match the "confirm" url parameter, and it is changed on each call.

Here's a perl script to download these files in an unattended way.

With the url from the antivirus scan warning page (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=s5vl&id=XXX) this code should be enough:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $TEMP='/tmp';my $COMMAND;my $confirm;
sub execute_command();
my $URL=shift;my $FILENAME=shift;
$FILENAME='gdown' if $FILENAME eq '';
execute_command();
if (-s $FILENAME < 100000) { # only if file isn't the download yet
    open fFILENAME, '<', $FILENAME;
    foreach (<fFILENAME>) {
        if (/confirm=([^;&]+)/) {
            $confirm=$1; last;   }    }
    close fFILENAME;
    $URL=~s/confirm=([^;&]+)/confirm=$confirm/;
    execute_command();    }
sub execute_command() {
    $COMMAND="wget --no-check-certificate --load-cookie $TEMP/cookie.txt --save-cookie $TEMP/cookie.txt \"$URL\"";
    $COMMAND.=" -O \"$FILENAME\"" if $FILENAME ne '';
    `$COMMAND`; return 1;    }

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