Load. Zip File from Github in Google Colab
I Have a Zip File at My Github Repo. I Want to Load It into My Google Colab Files. I Have It's Url from Where It Can Be Dowloaded Like I Used This Method to...
I have a zip file at my GitHub repo. I want to load it into my Google Colab files. I have it's url from where it can be dowloaded like
I used this method to download file into Google Colab
from google.colab import files
url = '
files.download(url)
But I get this error
FileNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-c974a89c0412> in <module>()
3 from google.colab import files
4
----> 5 files.download(url)
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/google/colab/files.py in download(filename)
141 raise OSError(msg)
142 else:
--> 143 raise FileNotFoundError(msg) # pylint: disable=undefined-variable
144
145 comm_manager = _IPython.get_ipython().kernel.comm_manager
FileNotFoundError: Cannot find file:
Files in Google Colab are temporary, so I cannot upload it each time. This is the reason I wanted to host the file in my project's GitHub repo. What would be the correct method to download the file into Google Colab?
4 Answers
Use the "wget" bash command. Just open the Github project and go to the download as zip option (at top right). Then, copy the url and use "wget" command.
!wget
!unzip /content/master.zip
good luck.
Let's suppose that i.e. GitHub repo contains folder digits with two zip files digits.zip and digits_small.zip. To download and unzip certain zip file from GitHub repo (not the whole repo or folder, but only digits.zip) into Google Colab session storage:
- go to zip file you want to download (i.e. )
- Locate button Download and copy its address (RMB->Copy link address), for the example above copied address is
- Go to Google colab file and use
!wgetcommand with the copied address to download and!unzipto unzip the file into session storage:
!wget
!unzip /content/digits.zip
You can also rename the file after download or specify folder name for unzipped data.
You may notice that the dowloadable address differs from zip file address just a little. In fact should be enough to replace blob with raw to get the right address for any zip file.
I do not use Google Colab, but I looked at this description. Understand that the google.colab.download option is to download Google Colab files. It's not for downloading any file. If this file is public you can use other libraries to retrieve the file. For example, you can use urllib:
from urllib.request import urlretrieve
urlretrieve(url)
If you decide you need more files and use the code, then consider the other answer about git clone
You could do this to clone the entire repository.
!git clone
This creates a folder called reponame and is convenient if you have many files to download. The personalaccesstoken allows private repositories to be accessed.
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