skicka: Google drive command line tool

Install go and skicka

$ sudo pacman -S go
$ mkdir ~/go
$ export GOPATH=~/go
$ export PATH=$PATH:~/go/bin
$ go get github.com/google/skicka

Initialize the configuration and client id/secret key pairs from  https://console.developers.google.com/project
Read: https://github.com/google/skicka/blob/master/README.md


$ skicka init
2015/05/14 21:44:37 created configuration file /home/xatier/.skicka.config.
$ vim ~/.skicka.config



Oauth authentication for the first time
Generate ~/.skicka.metadata.cache and ~/.skicka.tokencache.json

$ skicka ls -l /
Go to the following link in your browser:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?***********************************
Enter verification code: ******************************************
Updating metadata cache: 
[========================================================================================] 99.99 % 37s


Support commands:

$ skicka
usage: skicka [skicka options] [command options]

Supported commands are:
cat Print the contents of the given file
download Download a file or folder hierarchy from Drive to the local disk
df Display free space on Drive
du Report disk usage for a folder hierarchy on Drive
fsck Check consistency of files in Drive and local metadata cache
genkey Generate a new encryption key
init Create an initial skicka configuration file
ls List the contents of a folder on Google Drive
mkdir Create a new folder or folder hierarchy on Drive
rm Remove a file or folder on Google Drive
upload Upload a local file or directory hierarchy to Drive



Testing with my hinet 100/40 home use plan (roughly around 1.5MB/s):


$ skicka upload GG.mp4 /
Files: 23.83 MB / 23.83 MB 
[========================================================================================] 100.00 % 15s
2015/05/14 22:13:11 Preparation time 1s, sync time 15s
2015/05/14 22:13:11 Updated 1 Drive files, 0 local files
2015/05/14 22:13:11 23.83 MiB read from disk, 0 B written to disk
2015/05/14 22:13:11 23.83 MiB uploaded (1.58 MiB/s), 0 B downloaded (0 B/s)
2015/05/14 22:13:11 4.72 MiB peak memory used

$ skicka upload GG.mp4 /
Files: 23.83 MB / 23.83 MB 
[========================================================================================] 100.00 % 13s
2015/05/14 22:14:19 Preparation time 1s, sync time 13s
2015/05/14 22:14:19 Updated 1 Drive files, 0 local files
2015/05/14 22:14:19 23.83 MiB read from disk, 0 B written to disk
2015/05/14 22:14:19 23.83 MiB uploaded (1.72 MiB/s), 0 B downloaded (0 B/s)
2015/05/14 22:14:19 5.49 MiB peak memory used

$ skicka upload GG.mp4 /
Files: 23.83 MB / 23.83 MB 
[========================================================================================] 100.00 % 13s
2015/05/14 22:14:41 Preparation time 1s, sync time 13s
2015/05/14 22:14:41 Updated 1 Drive files, 0 local files
2015/05/14 22:14:41 23.83 MiB read from disk, 0 B written to disk
2015/05/14 22:14:41 23.83 MiB uploaded (1.71 MiB/s), 0 B downloaded (0 B/s)
2015/05/14 22:14:41 5.49 MiB peak memory used

$ skicka upload GG.mp4 /
Files: 23.83 MB / 23.83 MB 
[========================================================================================] 100.00 % 15s
2015/05/14 22:15:01 Preparation time 1s, sync time 15s
2015/05/14 22:15:01 Updated 1 Drive files, 0 local files
2015/05/14 22:15:01 23.83 MiB read from disk, 0 B written to disk
2015/05/14 22:15:01 23.83 MiB uploaded (1.51 MiB/s), 0 B downloaded (0 B/s)
2015/05/14 22:15:01 5.49 MiB peak memory used

Large file test:

$ skicka upload movie.mkv
Files: 8.39 GB / 8.39 GB 
[========================================================================================] 100.00 % 2h43m59s
2015/05/15 01:18:24 Preparation time 1s, sync time 2h 43m 59s
2015/05/15 01:18:24 Updated 1 Drive files, 0 local files
2015/05/15 01:18:24 8.39 GiB read from disk, 0 B written to disk
2015/05/15 01:18:24 8.39 GiB uploaded (893.93 kiB/s), 0 B downloaded (0 B/s)
2015/05/15 01:18:24 16.07 MiB peak memory used



Encryption

$ SKICKA_PASSPHRASE=gg skicka genkey
; Add the following lines to the [encryption] section
; of your ~/.skicka.config file.
salt=************************************
passphrase-hash=************************************
encrypted-key=************************************
encrypted-key-iv=************************************

$ SKICKA_PASSPHRASE=gg skicka upload -encrypt GG2.mp4 /
Files: 23.83 MB / 23.83 MB 
[========================================================================================] 100.00 % 25s
2015/05/14 21:59:16 Preparation time 1s, sync time 26s
2015/05/14 21:59:16 Updated 1 Drive files, 0 local files
2015/05/14 21:59:16 23.83 MiB read from disk, 0 B written to disk
2015/05/14 21:59:16 23.83 MiB uploaded (928.17 kiB/s), 0 B downloaded (0 B/s)
2015/05/14 21:59:16 4.24 MiB peak memory used