Extract Google Drive zip from Google colab notebook

Question

I already have a zip of (2K images) dataset on a google drive. I have to use it in a ML training algorithm. Below Code extracts the content in a string format:

Answer 1

Instead of GetContentString(), use GetContentFile() instead. It will save the file instead of returning the string.

downloaded.GetContentFile('images.zip') 

Then you can unzip it later with unzip.

Answer 2

You can simply use this

!unzip file_location

Answer 3

Mount GDrive:

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

Open the link -> copy authorization code -> paste that into the prompt and press "Enter"

Check GDrive access:

!ls "/content/gdrive/My Drive"

Unzip (q stands for "quiet") file from GDrive:

!unzip -q "/content/gdrive/My Drive/dataset.zip"

Answer 4

To extract Google Drive zip from a Google colab notebook:

import zipfile
from google.colab import drive

drive.mount('/content/drive/')

zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile("/content/drive/My Drive/ML/DataSet.zip", 'r')
zip_ref.extractall("/tmp")
zip_ref.close()

Answer 5

Try this:

!unpack file.zip

If its now working or file is 7z try below

!apt-get install p7zip-full
!p7zip -d file_name.tar.7z
!tar -xvf file_name.tar

Or

!pip install pyunpack
!pip install patool

from pyunpack import Archive
Archive(‘file_name.tar.7z’).extractall(‘path/to/’)
!tar -xvf file_name.tar

Answer 6

SIMPLE WAY TO CONNECT

1) You'll have to verify authentication

from google.colab import auth
auth.authenticate_user()
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials
creds = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()

2)To fuse google drive

!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

3)To verify credentials

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}

4)Create a drive name to use it in colab ('gdrive') and check if it's working

!mkdir gdrive
!google-drive-ocamlfuse gdrive
!ls gdrive
!cd gdrive