title: How to download a file from Google Drive
body: <p>I am currently trying to make an application that downloads files from Google Drive.</p>
  
  <p>In the Google Drive SDK documentation I found an example method that should return a System.IO.Stream object. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://developers.google.com/drive/manage-downloads" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/drive/manage-downloads</a></p>
  
  <p>To do so it needs the download URL for each file.
  However, this download URL is not always specified returned. Does anyone have any Idea why this is? And what I can do about it?</p>
  
  <p>Update: I have found that I can use an exportURL. These are almost always returned by the service.</p>
  
  <p>Folowup question: How can I run an app as a certain user? => sometimes the app makes a request to a url and then the request times out. When I try that same URL in a browser it works like a charm...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>