How to access zip files from drive on Google collab?

Question

I have dataset from https://www.kaggle.com/puneet6060/intel-image-classification that I have in my Google drive. These folders are zipped.

Help needed with How do I access individual zip folders(seg_train.zip,seg_test.zip,seg_pred.zip) from the main folder? Then, after accessing the zip, say seg_train.zip, how to access folders (building,glaciers) from that?

I tried below code:

    !pip install PyDriveimport os
    from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
    from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
    from google.colab import auth
    from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials
    auth.authenticate_user()
    gauth = GoogleAuth()
    gauth.credentials = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
    drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)
    download = drive.CreateFile({'id': '1d7-jWu8P1q3cNfcRaqSE8bybUrdl9qyW'})
    download.GetContentFile('data.zip')
    !unzip data.zip

ID of the main folder being

1d7-jWu8P1q3cNfcRaqSE8bybUrdl9qyW

I am getting below error:

FileNotDownloadableError                  Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-db7681c14c0b> in <module>()
----> 1 download.GetContentFile('data.zip')
      2 get_ipython().system('unzip data.zip')

2 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pydrive/files.py in FetchContent(self, mimetype, remove_bom)
    263     else:
    264       raise FileNotDownloadableError(
--> 265         'No downloadLink/exportLinks for mimetype found in metadata')
    266 
    267     if mimetype == 'text/plain' and remove_bom:

FileNotDownloadableError: No downloadLink/exportLinks for mimetype found in metadata

Answer 1

Skip PyDrive and mount your Google Drive directly using this snippet:

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

Then, you can access directories in Drive just as though they were normal files on the backend VM.