I just found a helpful answer from Quora about downloading a large file from Google Drive. It utilizes Google Drive API for downloading the file. The steps are as follows. Get the file ID from the shareable link URL. For example, the URL has a format similar to this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/THE_FILE_ID/view?usp=sharing , then the file ID is THE_FILE_ID . Go to Google OAuth 2.0 Playground . On this page, we can get an access token for utilizing Google API to download our file. Select the Drive API v3 and authorize it. Then, keep the access token that is available on the "Exchange authorization code for tokens" tab. Last, we can utilize curl to download the file using a terminal. curl -H "Authorization: Bearer THE_ACCESS_TOKEN" https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/THE_FILE_ID?alt=media -o THE_OUTPUT_FILE.ext