1 minute readCreated on January 15, 2020Last modified on September 15, 2020
Tagged with: Setting up Kaggle to use with Google Colab
In order to be able to access Kaggle Datasets, you will need to have an account on Kaggle (which is Free)
Grabbing Our Tokens
Go to Kaggle
Click on your User Profile and Click on My Account
Scroll Down until you see Create New API Token
This will download your token as a JSON file
Copy the File to the root folder of your Google Drive
Setting up Colab
Mounting Google Drive
import os
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
After this click on the URL in the output section, login and then paste the Auth Code
Configuring Kaggle
os.environ['KAGGLE_CONFIG_DIR'] = "/content/drive/My Drive/"
Voila! You can now download Kaggle datasets