Transferred: 0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA -
Errors: 1 (retrying may help)
Elapsed time: 2.4s
2023/08/13 16:38:34 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
2023/08/13 16:38:34 Failed to copy: directory not found
just copies a file . that is not the file of interest. Here is the output from debugger
2023/08/13 17:51:24 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.63.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "copyurl" "-vv" "https://drive.google.com/file/d/<URI-CHANGED>" "test_file2.mkv" "--config" "/home/user1/.config/rclone/rclone_test.conf" "-vv"]
2023/08/13 17:51:24 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "."
2023/08/13 17:51:24 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/user1/.config/rclone/rclone_test.conf"
2023/08/13 17:51:24 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "." to be canonical "/home/user1/Projects/test"
2023/08/13 17:51:26 DEBUG : test_file2.mkv: md5 = <md5-value> OK
2023/08/13 17:51:26 DEBUG : test_file2.mkv: Size and md5 of src and dst objects identical
2023/08/13 17:51:26 INFO :
Transferred: 609.166 KiB / 609.166 KiB, 100%, 0 B/s, ETA -
Transferred: 1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time: 2.2s
2023/08/13 17:51:26 DEBUG : 7 go routines active
Also if I look at copyurl it says how to download a public url to a remote. In this case the url access is restricted and only available to a specific remote.
Yes I can confirm this works very well for files available in the gdrive remote and for files shared to the gdrive remote. Thank you. Might be helpful to add this information somewhere prominently in the website. This is superhelpful especially for google drive remotes.