Import data into Google Colaboratory

Question

What are the common ways to import private data into Google Colaboratory notebooks? Is it possible to import a non-public Google sheet? You can't read from system files. The introductory docs link to a guide on using BigQuery, but that seems a bit... much.

Answer 1

An official example notebook demonstrating local file upload/download and integration with Drive and sheets is available here: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/io.ipynb

The simplest way to share files is to mount your Google Drive.

To do this, run the following in a code cell:

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

Afterward, your Drive files will be mounted and you can browse them with the file browser in the side panel.

Here's a full example notebook

Answer 2

Upload

from google.colab import files
files.upload()

Download

files.download('filename')

List directory

files.os.listdir()

Answer 3

Simple way to import data from your googledrive - doing this save people time (don't know why google just doesn't list this step by step explicitly).

INSTALL AND AUTHENTICATE PYDRIVE

     !pip install -U -q PyDrive ## you will have install for every colab session

     from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
     from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
     from google.colab import auth
     from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials

     # 1. Authenticate and create the PyDrive client.
     auth.authenticate_user()
     gauth = GoogleAuth()
     gauth.credentials = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
     drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)

UPLOADING

if you need to upload data from local drive:

    from google.colab import files

    uploaded = files.upload()

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

execute and this will display a choose file button - find your upload file - click open

After uploading, it will display:

    sample_file.json(text/plain) - 11733 bytes, last modified: x/xx/2018 - %100 done
    User uploaded file "sample_file.json" with length 11733 bytes

CREATE FILE FOR NOTEBOOK

If your data file is already in your gdrive, you can skip to this step.

Now it is in your google drive. Find the file in your google drive and right click. Click get 'shareable link.' You will get a window with:

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=29PGh8XCts3mlMP6zRphvnIcbv27boawn

Copy - '29PGh8XCts3mlMP6zRphvnIcbv27boawn' - that is the file ID.

In your notebook:

    json_import = drive.CreateFile({'id':'29PGh8XCts3mlMP6zRphvnIcbv27boawn'})

    json_import.GetContentFile('sample.json') - 'sample.json' is the file name that will be accessible in the notebook.

IMPORT DATA INTO NOTEBOOK

To import the data you uploaded into the notebook (a json file in this example - how you load will depend on file/data type - .txt,.csv etc. ):

    sample_uploaded_data = json.load(open('sample.json'))

Now you can print to see the data is there:

    print(sample_uploaded_data)

Answer 4

step 1- Mount your Google Drive to Collaboratory

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

step 2- Now you will see your Google Drive files in the left pane (file explorer). Right click on the file that you need to import and select çopy path. Then import as usual in pandas, using this copied path.

import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_csv('gdrive/My Drive/data.csv')

Done!

Answer 5

The simplest way I've made is :

1. Make repository on github with your dataset
2. Clone Your repository with ! git clone --recursive [GITHUB LINK REPO]
3. Find where is your data ( !ls command )
4. Open file with pandas as You do it in normal jupyter notebook.

Answer 6

This allows you to upload your files through Google Drive.

Run the below code (found this somewhere previously but I can't find the source again - credits to whoever wrote it!):

!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}

Click on the first link that comes up which will prompt you to sign in to Google; after that another will appear which will ask for permission to access to your Google Drive.

Then, run this which creates a directory named 'drive', and links your Google Drive to it:

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

If you do a !ls now, there will be a directory drive, and if you do a !ls drive you can see all the contents of your Google Drive.

So for example, if I save my file called abc.txt in a folder called ColabNotebooks in my Google Drive, I can now access it via a path drive/ColabNotebooks/abc.txt

Answer 7

The simplest solution I have found so far which works perfectly for small to mid-size CSV files is:

1. Create a secret gist on gist.github.com and upload (or copy-paste the content of) your file.
2. Click on the Raw view and copy the raw file URL.
3. Use the copied URL as the file address when you call pandas.read_csv(URL)

This may or may not work for reading a text file line by line or binary files.

Answer 8

Quick and easy import from Dropbox:

!pip install dropbox
import dropbox
access_token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE' # https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(access_token)

# response = dbx.files_list_folder("")

metadata, res = dbx.files_download('/dataframe.pickle2')

with open('dataframe.pickle2', "wb") as f:
  f.write(res.content)

Answer 9

On the left bar of any colaboratory there is a section called "Files". Upload your files there and use this path

"/content/YourFileName.extension"

ex: pd.read_csv('/content/Forbes2015.csv');

Answer 10

You can also use my implementations on google.colab and PyDrive at https://github.com/ruelj2/Google_drive which makes it a lot easier.

!pip install - U - q PyDrive  
import os  
os.chdir('/content/')  
!git clone https://github.com/ruelj2/Google_drive.git  

from Google_drive.handle import Google_drive  
Gd = Google_drive()  

Then, if you want to load all files in a Google Drive directory, just

Gd.load_all(local_dir, drive_dir_ID, force=False)  

Or just a specific file with

Gd.load_file(local_dir, file_ID)

Answer 11

It has been solved, find details here and please use the function below: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47212852/how-to-import-and-read-a-shelve-or-numpy-file-in-google-colaboratory/49467113#49467113

from google.colab import files
import zipfile, io, os

    def read_dir_file(case_f):
        # author: yasser mustafa, 21 March 2018  
        # case_f = 0 for uploading one File and case_f = 1 for uploading one Zipped Directory
        uploaded = files.upload()    # to upload a Full Directory, please Zip it first (use WinZip)
        for fn in uploaded.keys():
            name = fn  #.encode('utf-8')
            #print('\nfile after encode', name)
            #name = io.BytesIO(uploaded[name])
        if case_f == 0:    # case of uploading 'One File only'
            print('\n file name: ', name)
            return name
        else:   # case of uploading a directory and its subdirectories and files
            zfile = zipfile.ZipFile(name, 'r')   # unzip the directory 
            zfile.extractall()
            for d in zfile.namelist():   # d = directory
                print('\n main directory name: ', d)
                return d
    print('Done!')

Answer 12

Here is one way to import files from google drive to notebooks.

open jupyter notebook and run the below code and do complete the authentication process

!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}

once you done with above code , run the below code to mount google drive

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

Importing files from google drive to notebooks (Ex: Colab_Notebooks/db.csv)

lets say your dataset file in Colab_Notebooks folder and its name is db.csv

import pandas as pd
dataset=pd.read_csv("drive/Colab_Notebooks/db.csv")

I hope it helps

Answer 13

if you want to do this without code it's pretty easy. Zip your folder in my case it is

dataset.zip

then in Colab right click on the folder where you want to put this file and press Upload and upload this zip file. After that write this Linux command.

!unzip <your_zip_file_name>

you can see your data is uploaded successfully.