Download specific files from kaggle

Active Oldest Votes. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Hello Martin! You can most certainly use the kaggle API to pull individual files from a kaggle competition. The following command would download all of the files in the competitions:!

To download a specific file I normally use:! This is recommended if problems come up during the installation process.

Installations done through the root user i. Even then, they still might not work. User installs are strongly recommended in the case of permissions errors. If you run into a kaggle: command not found error, ensure that your python binaries are on your path. You can see where kaggle is installed by doing pip uninstall kaggle and seeing where the binary is.

Please ensure that you are using Python 3 before reporting any issues. This will trigger the download of kaggle. For your security, ensure that other users of your computer do not have read access to your credentials.

On Unix-based systems you can do this with the following command:. If you want to create a new dataset, you need to initiate metadata file at first. You could fulfill this by running kaggle datasets init as describe above. After all the above steps are finished, one can download the datasets from Kaggle.

The procedure to download the competitions and the datasets will be the same except for a few minor changes. One can also load a kaggle file from Google drive and download specific files. This saves the time and effort of the users by speeding up the downloads.

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