kaggle command fails with google colaboratory

Executing the following command will result in an error. “kaggle.json” is right under google drive. What is the cause?

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1BhbII5rQTqfxLK0aYusfHReWJpNSm7XD

!pip install kaggle

Collecting kaggle : Successfully installed Unidecode-1.0.22 kaggle-1.4.7.1 python-slugify-1.2.6

from googleapiclient.discovery import build import io, os from googleapiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload from google.colab import auth auth.authenticate_user() drive_service = build('drive', 'v3') results = drive_service.files().list(q="name = 'kaggle.json'", fields="files(id)").execute() kaggle_api_key = results.get('files', []) filename = "~/.kaggle/kaggle.json" os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(filename), exist_ok=True) request = drive_service.files().get_media(fileId=kaggle_api_key[0]['id']) fh = io.FileIO(filename, 'wb') downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request) done = False while done is False: status, done = downloader.next_chunk() print("Download %d%%." % int(status.progress() * 100)) os.chmod(filename, 600)

Download 100%

!kaggle competitions list

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/bin/kaggle”, line 7, in <module> from kaggle.cli import main File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/kaggle/init.py”, line 23, in <module> api.authenticate() File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py”, line 110, in authenticate self._load_config(config_data) File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py”, line 149, in _load_config raise ValueError(‘Error: Missing %s in configuration.’ % item) ValueError: Error: Missing username in configuration.

[corrieann]

Can you try changing filename above to “/root/.kaggle/kaggle.json”?

https://colab.research.google.com/gist/corrieann/7b1e460d3381bf058627bdaa64840122/kaggle-api.ipynb

[amartya-k]

It’s because the current directory is changed. Use the code below and run the cell: !mkdir ~/.kaggle !cp /content/.kaggle/kaggle.json ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json

And also you can goto the parent directory by using the command cd .. In colab by default we get ‘\contents’ as the current working directory. I hope this resolves your issue.