google-drive-to-sqlite
Data
database export tool
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How HN took it
6 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Datasette and related tools are a pleasure to use
From 2 comments
Datasette and the various companion tools have all been a pleasure to work with. I've recently been using it to build my personal info archive as well as building a data analysis…
20after4 on HNI dived into Datasette a bit last year. Simon has a whole set of tools around SQLite and data analysis with it. I haven't used any of it for anything major but I love to see what…
rbosinger on HN
Useful SQLite-based design idea
From 2 comments
TELL HN: More things like this please -- though I have no real use for this tool directly, it's paradigms are super helpful in thinking through other projects I'm working on.…
anonymouse008 on HNAgreed. More uses of SQLite too! I have been working with it to gather ecom sales data across platforms for a couple of months. Such a powerful tool! I want to do more with it!
mixcocam on HN
Objections
Google is deprecating the OOB OAuth flow, complicating CLI authentication
From 2 comments
We discovered (in rclone) that Google are deprecating the auth method you are using - the OOB auth here:…
nickcw on HNIt's pretty hard to understand what I'm meant to do for a CLI app instead here. Are they removing all versions of the "copy and paste this code" auth flow? Do I need to spin up a…
simonw on HN
Syncing locally and indexing is slow or rate limited for large Drives
From 1 comment
If you have a lots of files in Google Drive, this can take a significant amount of time or you may not be able to sync it locally. I push incremental backups & disk images…
nijave on HN
Requests
Alfred or Spotlight integration for querying the index
From 1 comment
An Alfred workflow that queries this index would be fantastic. Alternatively feed it into spotlight
tonymet on HN
Questions
How does the Cog README generation work with IDEs
From 1 comment
> The README is using a trick I'm increasingly leaning on: parts of that document - the --help output and the example database schema - are automatically generated using Cog How…
samhw on HN
Alternatives named
gTakeout (Google Takeout)
From 1 comment
gTakeout[0] also includes this file meta and allows incremental downloads. Ingesting from a local Takeout archive as an additional source for your tool mitigates some of this…
smcnally on HN
voidtools Everything search with local sync
From 1 comment
> Pulling the metadata—file names, sizes, file types, file owners, creation dates—into a SQLite database felt like a great way to start understanding the size and scope of what…
NicoJuicy on HN
rclone
From 1 comment
We discovered (in rclone) that Google are deprecating the auth method you are using - the OOB auth here:…
nickcw on HN