Colaboratory: Can I access to my Google drive folder and file?

Question

Google Colaboratory is really cool, but it would be more useful if I can access all my google drive files, without using standard google drive API.

Is it possible and easy? and how?

Answer 1

Here's an example of using a FUSE Drive interface to access your Drive files like local files: https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1srw_HFWQ2SMgmWIawucXfusGzrj1_U0q

In short:

# Load the Drive helper and mount
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

After executing the code above, your Drive files will be present in /content/drive/My Drive.

I'm guessing you also found the bundled example I/O notebook, which shows how to use Python APIs to access files as well. (This requires a bit less configuration.) https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=/v2/external/notebooks/io.ipynb&scrollTo=c2W5A2px3doP

Answer 2

Please follow 3 simple steps in colab notebook to access folder or a file in google drive,

Step :1 Run this snippet

    !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}

At this step you will be asked two times to click on a link to allow access to your drive, at each step code will be generated:(eg:4/AACN9EZG2AU0dRsV0BupjAc107ugSvT_pmr4YPElX7VkoWru6mNmqc8).Paste this code and click enter.

Step:2 To create directory

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

Step:3 Access your file

import pandas as pd
trainDf = pd.read_csv("drive/app/Sample/train.csv");//Here is your file 

Answer 3

After success run Drive FUSE program, you can access your drive at /content/drive with using command

import os
os.chdir("/content/drive/")
!ls

Answer 4

Yes you can do that.

follow the below steps.

Run the below code and complete the authentication

 !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}

**Run the below code **

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

**import file to notebook **

import pandas as pd
pd.read_csv("drive/Colab_Notebooks/4k_without_spcl.csv") 

Colab_Notebooks is folder in google drive

Answer 5

To mount your Google drive to Colab:

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

and then to cd to any directory in the Google drive:

import os
os.chdir("gdrive/My Drive/kaggle")

and to list all items in the directory that Colab is working on (to make sure it's the right dir):

!ls