diff --git a/platon/__init__.py b/platon/__init__.py
index 76f7a015..0c681c30 100644
--- a/platon/__init__.py
+++ b/platon/__init__.py
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 __version__ = "6.2.2"
 __md5sum__ = "2cc3d6d746c80cc38bd9fdb25c226842"
 __data_url__ = "https://astro.uchicago.edu/~mz/data_{}.zip".format(__md5sum__)
+__gdrive__ = "https://drive.google.com/uc?id=<FILE_ID>"  # Replace <FILE_ID> with the actual file ID
diff --git a/platon/_get_data.py b/platon/_get_data.py
index 0c2c4dd9..37506c4d 100644
--- a/platon/_get_data.py
+++ b/platon/_get_data.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from urllib.request import urlopen
-
 from pkg_resources import resource_filename
-from platon import __data_url__, __md5sum__
+from platon import __data_url__, __gdrive__, __md5sum__
 
 import sys
 import zipfile
@@ -9,6 +8,18 @@
 import hashlib
 import ssl
 
+# Flag to enable or disable Google Drive as the CDN
+GDRIVE_CDN = False  # Set to False to use the default __data_url__
+
+# Try to import gdown only if GDRIVE_CDN is True
+if GDRIVE_CDN:
+    try:
+        import gdown
+    except ImportError:
+        print("Error: gdown is not installed. run 'pip install gdown'")
+        sys.exit(1)  # Exit the program if gdown is not install
+
+
 def get_data_if_needed():
     if not os.path.isdir(resource_filename(__name__, "data/")):
         get_data(resource_filename(__name__, "./"))
@@ -17,56 +28,63 @@ def get_data_if_needed():
         curr_md5sum = f.read().strip()
 
     if __md5sum__ != curr_md5sum:
-        print("Warning: data files are out of date.  To update, remove the PLATON data directory ({}) and PLATON will automatically download the latest data files on the next run.".format(resource_filename(__name__, "data/")))
-        
+        print("Warning: data files are out of date. To update, remove the PLATON data directory ({}) and PLATON will automatically download the latest data files on the next run.".format(resource_filename(__name__, "data/")))
+
 
 def get_data(target_dir):
-    MB_TO_BYTES = 2**20
-    filename = "data.zip"
-    print("Data URL", __data_url__)
-
-    #Bad! Dangerous! But necessary...get a real certificate, Caltech!
-    ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
-    ctx.check_hostname = False
-    ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
-    u = urlopen(__data_url__, context=ctx)
-    f = open(filename, 'wb')
-
-    #Only for Python 3, because we don't support Python 2 anymore
-    file_size = int(u.getheader("Content-Length"))
-
-    print("Downloading {}: {:.0f} MB".format(
-        filename, file_size / MB_TO_BYTES))
-
-    bytes_downloaded = 0
-    block_sz = 8192
-    while True:
-        buffer = u.read(block_sz)
-        if not buffer:
-            break
-
-        bytes_downloaded += len(buffer)
-        f.write(buffer)
-        percentage = int(100 * bytes_downloaded / file_size)
-        status = "{:.0f} MB  [{}%]".format(
-            bytes_downloaded / MB_TO_BYTES, percentage)
-        print(status, end="\r")
-
-    f.close()
-
-    print("\nExtracting...")
-    zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile(filename, 'r')
-    zip_ref.extractall(target_dir)
-    zip_ref.close()
+    # Determine which CDN to use
+    use_gdrive = GDRIVE_CDN and bool(__gdrive__)  # Use GDrive if True
+    url = __gdrive__ if use_gdrive else __data_url__
+    filename = "data_gdrive.zip" if use_gdrive else "data.zip"
+    
+    # Check if the file already exists
+    if os.path.exists(filename):
+        print(f"'{filename}' already exists. Skipping.")
+    else:
+        if use_gdrive:
+            print(f"Downloading from Google Drive: {url}")
+            gdown.download(url, filename, quiet=False)  # Use gdown for Google Drive downloads
+        else:
+            MB_TO_BYTES = 2**20
+            print("Using URL:", url)
+
+            ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
+            ctx.check_hostname = False
+            ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
 
+            u = urlopen(url, context=ctx)
+            with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
+                file_size = int(u.getheader("Content-Length"))
+                print("Downloading {}: {:.0f} MB".format(
+                    filename, file_size / MB_TO_BYTES))
+                
+                bytes_downloaded = 0
+                block_sz = 8192
+                while True:
+                    buffer = u.read(block_sz)
+                    if not buffer:
+                        break
+
+                    bytes_downloaded += len(buffer)
+                    f.write(buffer)
+                    percentage = int(100 * bytes_downloaded / file_size)
+                    status = "{:.0f} MB  [{}%]".format(
+                        bytes_downloaded / MB_TO_BYTES, percentage)
+                    print(status, end="\r")
+            print("\nDownload finished!")
+
+    print("Extracting...")
+    with zipfile.ZipFile(filename, 'r') as zip_ref:
+        zip_ref.extractall(target_dir)
     print("Extraction finished!")
+
     with open(filename, "rb") as f:
         curr_md5sum = hashlib.md5(f.read()).hexdigest()
 
     if curr_md5sum != __md5sum__:
-        raise RuntimeError("Downloaded data file is corrupt (wrong md5sum).  Please try again.")
-    
+        raise RuntimeError("Downloaded data file is corrupt (wrong md5sum). Please try again.")
+
     with open(resource_filename(__name__, "md5sum"), "w") as f:
         f.write(curr_md5sum)
-        
+
     os.remove(filename)