file download from google drive to colaboratory

Question

I was trying to download file from my google drive to colaboratory.

file_id = '1uBtlaggVyWshwcyP6kEI-y_W3P8D26sz'  import io from googleapiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload  request = drive_service.files().get_media(fileId=file_id) downloaded = io.BytesIO() downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(downloaded, request) done = False while done is False:   # _ is a placeholder for a progress object that we ignore.   # (Our file is small, so we skip reporting progress.)   _, done = downloader.next_chunk()  downloaded.seek(0) print('Downloaded file contents are: {}'.format(downloaded.read())) 

doing so am getting this error:

NameError: name 'drive_service' is not defined 

How to remove this error?

Answer 1

No installing/importing any library. Just put your file id at the end.

!gdown --id yourFileIdHere 

Note: at the time of writing gdown library is preinstalled on colab.