Using Kaggle Datasets in Google Colab

Question

Is it possible to use any datasets available via the kaggle API in Google Colab? I see the Kaggle API is used in this Colab notebook, but it\'s a bit unclear to

Answer 1

Combined the top response to this Github gist as Colab Implementation. You can directly copy the code and use it.

How to Import a Dataset from Kaggle in Colab

Method:

First a few things you have to do:

1. Sign up for Kaggle
2. Sign up for a competition you want to access data from (for example LANL-Earthquake-Prediction competition).
3. Download your credentials to access Kaggle API as kaggle.json

# Install kaggle packages
!pip install -q kaggle
!pip install -q kaggle-cli

# Colab's file access feature
from google.colab import files

# Upload `kaggle.json` file
uploaded = files.upload()

# Retrieve uploaded file
# print results
for fn in uploaded.keys():
  print('User uploaded file "{name}" with length {length} bytes'.format(
      name=fn, length=len(uploaded[fn])))

# Then copy kaggle.json into the folder where the API expects to find it.
!mkdir -p ~/.kaggle
!cp kaggle.json ~/.kaggle/
!chmod 600 ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json
!ls ~/.kaggle

Now check if it worked!

#list competitions
!kaggle competitions list -s LANL-Earthquake-Prediction