Link to images within google drive from a colab notebook

Question

I would like to store image files on a drive and link to them from a collaboration notebook. Is this possible? For example.

google-drive/
  notebook.ipynb
           


        

Answer 1

Use the following code:

!apt-get install -y -qq software-properties-common python-software-properties module-init-tools
!add-apt-repository -y ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa 2>&1 > /dev/null
!apt-get update -qq 2>&1 > /dev/null
!apt-get -y install -qq google-drive-ocamlfuse fuse

from google.colab import auth
auth.authenticate_user()
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials
creds = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
import getpass
!google-drive-ocamlfuse -headless -id={creds.client_id} -secret={creds.client_secret} < /dev/null 2>&1 | grep URL
vcode = getpass.getpass()
!echo {vcode} | google-drive-ocamlfuse -headless -id={creds.client_id} -secret={creds.client_secret}

After running above command it will ask for the key. Click on the provided link and verify it.

Create a folder in drive using:

!mkdir -p colabData
!google-drive-ocamlfuse colabData

After this you can use the drive as if its connected locally:

%%bash
echo "Hello World...!!!" > colabData/hello.txt
ls colabData