Extract Google Drive zip from Google colab notebook

Question

I already have a zip of (2K images) dataset on a google drive. I have to use it in a ML training algorithm. Below Code extracts the content in a string format:

Answer 1

Colab research team has a notebook for helping you out.

Still, in short, if you are dealing with a zip file, like for me it is mostly thousands of images and I want to store them in a folder within drive then do this --

!unzip -u "/content/drive/My Drive/folder/example.zip" -d "/content/drive/My Drive/folder/NewFolder"

-u part controls extraction only if new/necessary. It is important if suddenly you lose connection or hardware switches off.

-d creates the directory and extracted files are stored there.

Of course before doing this you need to mount your drive

from google.colab import drive 
drive.mount('/content/drive')

I hope this helps! Cheers!!