Google drive download whole folder content with google drive viewer (google apps-script)
email-attachments, gmail, google-apps-script, google-drive-api
Solution
If you share a map via Google drive and send the link via email your link has an url of following format: https://drive.google.com/a/FOO/folderview?id=BAR&usp=sharing_eid where FOO is the domainname of your organization and BAR is the unique id of the folder (similar to i3AV_u1UsLmTa-dOm22I2XXgioDR8)
Change this url to the following https://drive.google.com/drive/#folders/BAR
Now you can click on the name of the folder and download all files. Note: this is what works today (Jan. '15) in an GAFE (Google Apps For Education) environment.
Problem
I have created an google script which go to my mail and fetch attachments and put it into a folder (shared as anyone with link), and share the link to folder with any given email. But when others open that folder with link it open in google drive viewer(online). Have to open each and every file to download. Is there any way I can let them download whole batch in much more less stressing way? I have tried out creating a folder (lets say folderchild) inside that folder(folderparent) then put all files in folderchild. But still same problem. Have to open that folderchild and open files in there and download them one by one. Zipping attachment is not an option for my solution. Any advices? Thanks in advance.