The latest articles on DEV Community by Chirag Shetty (@nurdtechie98). https://dev.to/nurdtechie98 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F390280%2Fc5818b2f-65bb-4250-89bf-d7eb96a173bb.png https://dev.to/nurdtechie98 en Chirag Shetty Wed, 20 May 2020 08:34:33 +0000 https://dev.to/nurdtechie98/drive-cli-4m7 https://dev.to/nurdtechie98/drive-cli-4m7 <h2> Context </h2> <p>It was the winter of 2018, I was at home with no internship that vacation. We had a few academic mini projects going on. I had always been a git github user for during those days, but my teammates who were not so into tech at that point, didn't find version control, git easy to use. <br> They used google drive for sharing code which isn't advisable.<br> ps: don't judge my teammates they already had a steep learning curve for the time so can't blame them.<br> Since I found going going away from the terminal and uploading and downloading code using UI a very boring process. Plus I need to move away from my beloved terminal. Thus I pondered why not use a CLI for drive as well.<br> When I went about finding for some CLI I wasn't able to find a any easy to install and use CLI for google drive. Thus I decided to build one and that's when I ended up building Drive-CLI.</p> <p>Drive-CLI is a command-line utility for google drive which helps you access, sync, download, upload, etc. directly to your drive without leaving the command-line. The best part being the commands are similar to git CLI so that you can easily remember them 💆</p> <h2> Demo Link </h2> <p>You can check it out yourself <a href="https://github.com/nurdtechie98/drive-cli">here</a><br> Do star it if you find it interesting.</p> <h2> How I built it ? </h2> <p>At the outset I started building it all alone, for the first few months built the core structure.<br> Since at that point the only thing I knew was python so that is what I decided to used.<br> I had earlier worked with API's but wasn't so confident back then, but throughout the process I learnt a lot of things solidified a lot concepts.<br> Once I started it with the basic set of commands, I published the package on Pypi and made the repo public on github.<br> A lot of people found in really interesting and started contributing to it, and we ended up adding many more features.</p> <p>From that time onwards it has only garnered more and more support from people, with poeple actively using it, making pull request. I really feel proud to have done something of this sorts and have nothing but a lot of thanks to say, to all the contributors.</p> <p>Final Note: I am really sorry that I have not been maintaining the project actively, but with the senior year and other activities going on I am really finding it hard to dedicate time. But definitely get it back on track soon. At this point I need a custom domain name to take the project ahead because of google api verification, so I am waiting for it.</p> octograd2020 githubsdp python opensource