How to Fix Errors with gdown

When using gdown, a dedicated Google Drive downloader, the following error started occurring frequently:

Access denied with the following error:

Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to ‘Anyone with the link’, or have had many accesses.

You may still be able to access the file from the browser:

As a workaround, reinstalling gdown as follows resolved the error:

!pip install -U –no-cache-dir gdown –pre

We hope this serves as a useful reference for those experiencing the same issue.