How to download competition dataset from Kaggle to Google Collab easily and unzip

download_kaggle_to_collab

# Copy paste this gist in a Google Collab cell
# Go to your Kaggle competition page -> data, scroll below to see the kaggle api command which looks similar to below line
# !kaggle competitions download -c competitive-data-science-predict-future-sales -p data
# Replace that line accordingly in the below code
# Run the cell

!pip install kaggle

from google.colab import files
files.upload()
!echo -E "Upload your kaggle.json API credentials now" 
!echo -E "Check here to see how to download that: https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api#api-credentials"

!mkdir ~/.kaggle
!cp kaggle.json ~/.kaggle/
!chmod 600 ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json

!echo "Authentication done"

# Replace below line accordingly
!kaggle competitions download -c competitive-data-science-predict-future-sales -p data
# "-p data" downloads it to data folder.
echo "Data download to data directory"
!ls data
!echo "Unzipping all zip files"
!unzip data/\*.zip -d data
!ls data
!echo "Removing zip files"
!rm data/*.zip
!ls data
!echo "Files downloaded and unzipped in data directory"
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