Google drive API download files - python - no files downloaded

Question

I have tried a number of ways to download files from google drive via oauth and the API, however I am not able to get the files downloaded. I believe I have properly authenticated. After running my code, it looks like there was success with downloading the file (no errors), but no files were downloaded.

This is the code I have tried so far:

def download_file(file_id, mimeType):     if "google-apps" in mimeType:         return     request = drive_service.files().get(fileId=file_id)     fh = io.BytesIO()     downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)     done = False     while done is False:         status, done = downloader.next_chunk()         print "Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100) 

However, this results in "Download 100%." being printed to the console, but no file downloaded.

I have also tried:

def download2(download_url):     resp, content = drive_service._http.request(download_url)     if resp.status == 200:         print 'Status: %s' % resp         return content     else:         print 'An error occurred: %s' % resp         return None 

This also does not produce a downloaded file, but it does give me a 200 message.

Both of these seem like they are properly making contact with the API. Is there an additional step I have to do to actually get the files on my computer?

Edit:

this was the remainder of my code:

import json import webbrowser  import httplib2 import io from apiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload  from apiclient import discovery from oauth2client import client  if __name__ == '__main__':   flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(     'client_secrets.json',     scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly',     redirect_uri='urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob')    auth_uri = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()   webbrowser.open(auth_uri)    auth_code = raw_input('Enter the auth code: ')    credentials = flow.step2_exchange(auth_code)   http_auth = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())    drive_service = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http_auth) #also tried v2   files = drive_service.files().list().execute()   for f in files['files']:     #call one of the two download methods with the proper arguments 

Answer 1

Changing from BytesIO to FileIO allowed the file to actually be downloaded. This was the line I modified my code to:

fh = io.FileIO(filename, 'wb') 

Here is the complete code that allowed me to download the file:

def download_file(file_id, mimeType, filename):     if "google-apps" in mimeType:         # skip google files         return     request = drive_service.files().get_media(fileId=file_id)     fh = io.FileIO(filename, 'wb')     downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)     done = False     while done is False:         status, done = downloader.next_chunk()         print "Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100)   if __name__ == '__main__':     flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(       'client_secrets.json',       scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly',       redirect_uri='urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob')      auth_uri = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()     webbrowser.open(auth_uri)      print auth_uri      auth_code = raw_input('Enter the auth code: ')      credentials = flow.step2_exchange(auth_code)     http_auth = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())      drive_service = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http_auth)     files = drive_service.files().list().execute()     for f in files['files']:         print f['name']         download_file(f['id'], f['mimeType'], f['name'])