Can't find kaggle.json file in google colab

Question

I\'m trying to download the kaggle imagenet object localization challenge data into google colab so that I can use it to train my model. Kaggle uses an API for easy and fast acc

Answer 1

As the error said, you need to put kaggle.json in the right place.

Try:

!mv .kaggle /root/

Then run your code again.

Answer 2

You can find the JSON file that you need to place form Kaggle's portal itself. Just click 'Create New API Token' and it will give you a JSON file that needs to be placed.

Answer 3

According to kaggle api documentation the location where credentials json is looking for is ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json as google colab environment is Linux based. In your snippet you try to config path parameter, but it is not used to looking for credential json:

- path: Folder where file(s) will be downloaded, defaults to current working directory

So the full working snippet for google colab environment would be:

!mkdir ~/.kaggle
!touch ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json

api_token = {"username":"username","key":"api-key"}

import json

with open('/root/.kaggle/kaggle.json', 'w') as file:
    json.dump(api_token, file)

!chmod 600 ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json

And then some api call like

!kaggle datasets download -d datamunge/sign-language-mnist

Answer 4

In case you are a windows user, move your kaggle.json into .kaggle folder, that you are able to find it in your system root (which is in your username folder).