Downloading progress in Google Drive

Question

In my Meteor server app, I am downloading a file from Google Drive using this code,

var dest = fs.createWriteStream('/data/'+data.name);
        drive.files.get({
           fileId: data.id,
           alt: 'media',
           auth: jwtClient
        })
        .on('end', Meteor.bindEnvironment(function() {

        }))
        .on('error', function(err) {
          console.log('Error during download', err);
        })
        .pipe(dest);

How can I get the progress of the download? For example, i want every 30 seconds to display progress of the download using console.log()

Can I use .on('data')? I am using google drive nodejs v3 provided by Google.

Answer 1

You can get File meta (id, name, size) from drive.files.list with file name, then you can download the file.

Use Node.js Quickstart for google drive to authenticate.

I am using progress-stream to measure % data received.

var callAfterDownload = function (fileName, callback) {
  drive.files.list({
    auth: oauth2Client,
    pageSize: 1,
    q: 'name=\'' + fileName + '\'',
    fields: 'nextPageToken, files(id, name, size)'
  }, function (err, response) {
    if (err) {
      console.log('The API returned an error: ' + err)
      callback(['Error while download'])
    } else {
      var files = response.files
      //when only one file is matched we will download
      if (files.length === 1) {

        var file = files.pop()
        console.log('%s (%s)', file.name, file.id)
        var dest = fs.createWriteStream(file.name)
        var progress = Progress({time:100, length: file.size})

        //downloading matched file from drive
        drive.files.get({
          auth: oauth2Client,
          fileId: file.id,
          alt: 'media'
        }).on('error', function (err) {
          console.log('Error during download', err)
          callback(['Error while download'])
        }).pipe(progress).pipe(dest)

        //checking progress of file
        progress.on('progress', function(progress) {
          console.log('download completed ' +progress.percentage.toFixed(2) + '%')
        });

        //when write stream has finally written to file
        dest.on('finish', callback)

      } else {
        console.log('EXITING......More than one/no file exist with same name, make sure you have unique file name.')
        callback()
      }
    }
  })
}


function downloadDriveFile () {
  var fileName = 'testfile.doc'
  callAfterDownload(fileName, function (err) {
    if(err) throw err
    //your logic to do anything with the file
  })
}

downloadDriveFile();