如何将alt = media与Google Drive Python API结合使用？

Question

Here is one way (based on Google Drive Python quickstart.py) to download a file from Google Drive with the Python API:

credentials = get_credentials()
http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
service = discovery.build('drive', 'v2', http=http)

request = service.files().get_media(fileId=file_id)
fh = io.FileIO(file_name, 'wb')
downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request, chunksize=1024*1024)

done = False
while done is False:
    status, done = downloader.next_chunk()
    if status:
        print("download progress: {} %".format(int(status.progress() * 100)))
print("download complete!")

This writes the Drive file with file ID file_id to a local file with name file_name .

However, the documentation says over and over that the "preferred method" is to use "alt=media".

How does alt=media work with files().get() ? Where does alt=media go? What does it do?

Can anyone provide a simple example of how to download a file with files().get() and alt=media?

Or... does "use files().get() with alt=media " just mean use files().get_media() ?!

Thanks to anyone who can provide a clear explanation!

Answer 1

Gerardo's comment is apt and basically what I suspected. Case closed. And thank you for pointing out the OAuth Playground.