To avoid this problem when sharing or storing Google Drive links:

FILE_ID="1xy8bpgzdxewx5wtnbtwxvj9mvynojl" # Get the confirmation token (only needed for big files) CONFIRM=$(wget --quiet --save-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt \ --keep-session-cookies \ --no-check-certificate \ "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=$FILE_ID" -O- | \ sed -rn 's/.*confirm=([0-9A-Za-z_]+).*/\1/p') # Download the file using the token wget --load-cookies /tmp/cookies.txt \ "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=$CONFIRM&id=$FILE_ID" \ -O downloaded_file_name.ext # Clean up rm -rf /tmp/cookies.txt

Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud storage platforms, used by millions to share documents, images, videos, and other files. However, sometimes shared links become corrupted during copying, pasting, or text processing. One common corruption pattern turns a valid Google Drive URL into a string like:

Access to the requested Google Drive document is currently restricted, preventing direct review of the content. To proceed with a summary or analysis, the document's sharing settings must be updated to public or the text must be pasted directly. For information on managing sharing permissions, visit Google Drive Help . View and open files - Google Drive Help

gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1xy8bpgzdxewx5wtnbtwxvj9mvynojl