Download data from a jupyter server

Question

I'm using ipython notebook by connecting to a server I don't know how to download a thing (data frame, .csv file,... for example) programatically to my local computer. Because I can't specific declare the path like C://user//... It will be downloaded to their machine not mine

Answer 1

Run this in separate cell in one of the notebooks:

!tar cvfz zipname.tar.gz * 

To cover more folders up the tree, write ../ before the * for every step up the directory.

tar cvfz zipname.tar.gz ../../* 

The file zipname.tar.gz will be saved in the same folder as your notebook.

Also if files size is too large execute the following in same notebook block

!split -b 200m allfiles.tar.gz allfiles.tar.gz.part 

Alternatively you can use this extension https://github.com/data-8/nbzip

Answer 2

If you are using Jupyter notebook, you can go to the "File" tab on the top left part of the notebook and click "Open". It shows you the content of the current directory. You can select your data file with different format (CSV, text, etc) and then you can download it in your local computer.

Open tab in Jupyter notebook

Download your desired file