A cookie must match the "confirm" url parameter, and it is changed on each call.

Here's a perl script to download these files in an unattended way.

With the url from the antivirus scan warning page (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=s5vl&id=XXX) this code should be enough:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $TEMP='/tmp';my $COMMAND;my $confirm;
sub execute_command();
my $URL=shift;my $FILENAME=shift;
$FILENAME='gdown' if $FILENAME eq '';
execute_command();
if (-s $FILENAME < 100000) { # only if file isn't the download yet
    open fFILENAME, '<', $FILENAME;
    foreach (<fFILENAME>) {
        if (/confirm=([^;&]+)/) {
            $confirm=$1; last;   }    }
    close fFILENAME;
    $URL=~s/confirm=([^;&]+)/confirm=$confirm/;
    execute_command();    }
sub execute_command() {
    $COMMAND="wget --no-check-certificate --load-cookie $TEMP/cookie.txt --save-cookie $TEMP/cookie.txt \"$URL\"";
    $COMMAND.=" -O \"$FILENAME\"" if $FILENAME ne '';
    `$COMMAND`; return 1;    }

Update: Mars 2025

You can use gdown. Consider also visiting that page for full instructions; this is just a summary and the source repo may have more up-to-date instructions.

Instructions

Install it with the following command:

pip install gdown

After that, you can download any file from Google Drive by running one of these commands:

gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=<file_id>  # for files
gdown <file_id>                                 # alternative format
gdown --folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/<file_id>  # for folders
gdown --folder --id <file_id>                                   # this format works for folders too

Example: to download the readme file from this directory

gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7EVK8r0v71pOXBhSUdJWU1MYUk

The file_id should look something like 0Bz8a_Dbh9QhbNU3SGlFaDg. You can find this ID by right-clicking on the file of interest, and selecting Get link. As of November 2021, this link will be of the form:

# Files
https://drive.google.com/file/d/<file_id>/view?usp=sharing
# Folders
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/<file_id>

Caveats

• Only works on open access files. ("Anyone who has a link can View")
• Cannot download more than 50 files into a single folder.
  • If you have access to the source file, you can consider using tar/zip to make it a single file to work around this limitation.