google colab load file from drive code example

Example 1: download google drive file colab

!gdown --id yourFileIdHere

Example 2: read file from google drive colab

from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
from google.colab import auth
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials

Example 3: read file from google drive colab

downloaded = drive.CreateFile({'id':"your_file_ID"})   # replace the id with id of file you want to access
downloaded.GetContentFile('your_file_name.csv')        # replace the file name with your file

Example 4: read file from google drive colab

auth.authenticate_user()
gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.credentials = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)