TUTORIAL: How to get rid of 403 Errors

[TanukiAI]

How to get rid of 403 errors

Many people get Errors like
Failed to get file: googleapi: Error 403: Rate Limit Exceeded, rateLimitExceeded
and thanks to LINKIWI #392 (comment) I found a way to fix it properly.

What causes the problem?

The developer made one API for this program and an Google API can "only" make 10 million requests at a day. That means that too many people use this program and the requests gets full.

How much does an own API cost?

Nothing, Google made them free for everyone.

How do I fix it then?

You have to make an own API, download the programing language go, change the API to your own one and compile it to an .exe.
(And btw. binary editing resulted in errors)

And now step by step:

1. Download "go" for your platform from https://golang.org/dl/ and install it following the instructions for your platform here and download Git from https://git-scm.com/downloads and install it with standard settings

2. Download the repository as .zip from GitHub and unzip it in a new folder or simply execute
   git clone https://github.com/gdrive-org/gdrive.git
   

3. Log into your Google Account (or create one) and go to the Google Developer API Website (and if needed accept the ToS)

4. Click on "Create Project"
   

5. and then click "CREATE"
   

6. Give it a name (in my case "Google CLI TA40") and click "Create"
   

7. Now go to Google Drive API and click "ENABLE"
   

8. Now on the left side, click "Credentials"
   

9. And click "CREATE CREDENTIAL"
   

10. Fill the things like I did and then click on "What credentials do I need?"
    

11. Give it a name (I took the name of the API)
    

12. Next select your e-mail and then give it a name (I again took the name of the API)
    

13. Click on "Download" (A .json file will be downloaded)
    

14. Open the .json file in the editor of your choice.(Notepad++ prefered)
    You should see :

• "client_id" which looks like this: 81915486XXXX-XXXX22bh62ql2rbnaqtpds82od4ql976.apps.googleusercontent.com
• "client_secret" which are random characters like this: lnA7ZFg5NEGOMpFhd6e4Pqny

15. In the unzipped repository open the file names "handlers_drive.go" (via Notepad++) and change these 2 variables to the ones you got in step 14
    
    and save it

16. open CMD/terminal and go to the folder where the "handerls_drive.go" is.
    First type this: go get github.com/prasmussen/gdrive (thanks to mbenlioglu TUTORIAL: How to get rid of 403 Errors #426 (comment))
    Now type this: go build -ldflags '-w -s'
    Now you should have an executable for you platform which you can use normally

You can reset your data by deleting the %appdata%\.gdrive on Windows, $HOME/.gdrive on other platforms

Cross Compiling a Linux/OS X/Windows etc. version of gdrive from your device:

If you want to compile the binary for an OS other than the one you're using you should first set GOOS and GOARCH variables for that system.
Look up your target OS here: https://golang.org/doc/install/source#environment

Now do this in terminal:
On Windows:

SET GOOS=your os
SET GOARCH=your arch

On Mac OS/Linux:

export GOOS=your os
export GOARCH=your arch

then do go build -ldflags '-w -s'

Example variables if target platform is a 64 bit Linux machine:
GOOS=linux
GOARCH=amd64

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Edit: Updated to cover all platforms

[mbenlioglu]

Thanks for the tutorial. Closes #424 and #392. Should be included to the repo imo

Also I think Client ID/Secret should be read from client_id.json directly instead of hard-coding and simply replacing that file would solve it. I might create a pull request but not sure if the repo is still maintained.

[TanukiAI]

Last update was a year ago, so yeah, I don't think so. But this step-by-step tutorial should be fine, if anything's missing, let me know

[scrumbee]

TA40 isn't it possible to compile a linux amd64 version of this even if your doing it from golang installed on windows. Try to follow your steps and everything good so far, just need figure out the how to compile it and compile it for ubuntu 64bit, so amd64. Trying to do this from windows right now. If know if this possible and how maybe let me know and add to the guide?

[TanukiAI]

I don't know how to compile it for linux etc.
I can test it if you give me some type of commands but I don't know how to CrossCompile on a Windows machine

[scrumbee]

yea been trying too google it myself but yea might be better install unbutu in vmware and go from there. Like never done much compiling etc so dont realy know what im doing. Tryd follow ur steps for windows compile but yes giving me errors like this atm:

C:\Users\zibia\go\gdrive-master>go build
handlers_drive.go:12:2: cannot find package "github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/auth" in any of:
C:\Go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\auth (from $GOROOT)
C:\Users\zibia\go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\auth (from $GOPATH)
gdrive.go:7:2: cannot find package "github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/cli" in any of:
C:\Go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\cli (from $GOROOT)
C:\Users\zibia\go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\cli (from $GOPATH)
compare.go:5:2: cannot find package "github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/drive" in any of:
C:\Go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\drive (from $GOROOT)
C:\Users\zibia\go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\drive (from $GOPATH)

[mbenlioglu]

After you've changed the token, running _release/build-all.sh on Linux (or bash on Windows) should build all versions defined in "PLATFORMS" variable.

2 prerequisites:
    1. install go first.
    2. execute $ go get github.com/prasmussen/gdrive

[mbenlioglu]

yea been trying too google it myself but yea might be better install unbutu in vmware and go from there. Like never done much compiling etc so dont realy know what im doing. Tryd follow ur steps for windows compile but yes giving me errors like this atm:

C:\Users\zibia\go\gdrive-master>go build
handlers_drive.go:12:2: cannot find package "github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/auth" in any of:
C:\Go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\auth (from $GOROOT)
C:\Users\zibia\go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\auth (from $GOPATH)
gdrive.go:7:2: cannot find package "github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/cli" in any of:
C:\Go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\cli (from $GOROOT)
C:\Users\zibia\go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\cli (from $GOPATH)
compare.go:5:2: cannot find package "github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/drive" in any of:
C:\Go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\drive (from $GOROOT)
C:\Users\zibia\go\src\github.com\prasmussen\gdrive\drive (from $GOPATH)

execute go get github.com/prasmussen/gdrive first you should be able to build then

[TanukiAI]

Okay, I found it out.
On Windows you can do SET GOOS=linux and GOARCH=amd64 and then do go build
This will create a linux executable file
You can look for your OS here: https://golang.org/doc/install/source#environment

execute go get github.com/prasmussen/gdrive first you should be able to build then

will add this one to the guide, thanks

[scrumbee]

Will give this a try and get back to you asap.

[scrumbee]

Okay so based on all this info i manged to compile a working version for my Ubuntu server. Have tested it and confirmed its using the new API info i put inn and no more 404 errors. Thanks for putting this together TA40. But yea if someone knows how code this maybe next thing would be to move the google api Credentials to a config file rather than having them hard coded like this. Would be ideal for regular users so they don't have to compile it themselves.

[TanukiAI]

Nice, good to know that it's working. Anything to add to the tutorial where you had problems or so?
And well, thanks to LINKIWI for finding this out #392 (comment)

[scrumbee]

Well nothing big but i installed golang first then git, newly reinstalled windows so didn't have it and you will need to restart your computer for GIT to work in golang so maybe add that. But yea besides that everything was straight forward and painless.

[TanukiAI]

I think for that you just had to restart your command line ^^

[scrumbee]

Yea might forgotten to do that after i installed git, know i did it after i installed golang. But yea so lovely to set it upload without any errors. You intrested in maybe working on this some more, like im no code expert but removed the hard coded api bits and get that put into a config file instead.

[TanukiAI]

I myself have no idea how to do this because I don't know how golang works^^