title: Google drive API download files - python - no files downloaded
body: <p>I have tried a number of ways to download files from google drive via oauth and the API, however I am not able to get the files downloaded. I believe I have properly authenticated. After running my code, it looks like there was success with downloading the file (no errors), but no files were downloaded.</p>
  
  <p>This is the code I have tried so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def download_file(file_id, mimeType):
      if "google-apps" in mimeType:
          return
      request = drive_service.files().get(fileId=file_id)
      fh = io.BytesIO()
      downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)
      done = False
      while done is False:
          status, done = downloader.next_chunk()
          print "Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, this results in "Download 100%." being printed to the console, but no file downloaded.</p>
  
  <p>I have also tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def download2(download_url):
      resp, content = drive_service._http.request(download_url)
      if resp.status == 200:
          print 'Status: %s' % resp
          return content
      else:
          print 'An error occurred: %s' % resp
          return None
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This also does not produce a downloaded file, but it does give me a 200 message.</p>
  
  <p>Both of these seem like they are properly making contact with the API. Is there an additional step I have to do to actually get the files on my computer?</p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <p>this was the remainder of my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import json
  import webbrowser
  
  import httplib2
  import io
  from apiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload
  
  from apiclient import discovery
  from oauth2client import client
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
    flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(
      'client_secrets.json',
      scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly',
      redirect_uri='urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob')
  
    auth_uri = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()
    webbrowser.open(auth_uri)
  
    auth_code = raw_input('Enter the auth code: ')
  
    credentials = flow.step2_exchange(auth_code)
    http_auth = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
  
    drive_service = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http_auth) #also tried v2
    files = drive_service.files().list().execute()
    for f in files['files']:
      #call one of the two download methods with the proper arguments
  </code></pre>