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by ajross 5079 days ago
Looks cute, but for those wondering it does not appear to be open source. The linked download is a bunch of .pyc files. For those who care, I've been using the "grive" client (https://github.com/Grive) for a while, which is a much simpler on-demand sync utility.
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69_years_and 5079 days ago
I care - and Grive does look promising so thanks for the heads up. For some reason I do not like using a 3rd party for access - even though I do not understand where they fit in the data path - maybe I am just being overly paranoid. That said I will continue to explore Insynchq it may help me use Gdrive stored data more effectively on Linux.
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ajross 5079 days ago
At least with grive, it's all in the client binary. Your machine authenticates to google directly and touches only google services. I looked at the API briefly when it was released and it's pretty straightforward (think "S3 behind OAuth", basically).
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