How to load Google Drive in Python / Google Colab and save data into Google Drive using Python in Colab environment.
Providing a downloadable template solution and step by step tutorial for beginners regardless of previous knowledge on programming. In this tutorial and corresponding video, I provide a step-by-step tutorial and a ready-to-execute & download code script template to load or open and save your input and output csv data files from and into google sheets spreadsheets.
Code and data files templates are available to download in last part of this article.
- View a similar tutorial on reading and saving data from Google Sheets: https://winswithdata.com/?p=12
Initial settings
Step 1: review the required packages to connect with google drive along with other packages for initial settings
Step2: After running first block of code you are prompted to a new opened window to login to your google account, where your intended google drive exist.
- Colab is a product of Google and you should be already signed in your intended google account to run the Google Colab.
- After successfully confirming the opened window(s), you can continue with the next step of the code
Step 3: change directory to the path of folder your data files exist in your google drive.
In this example, here is the path for my data files. Let’s use this csv file as an example.
Step 4: you can continue reading your data files as you wish from here. you can also save your final data and it will be stored in same google drive folder.
Voilà!
Related links for this video:
- code script template solution for this video: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TRTL–jg_SeCB-ZurfDl8O-bki5k5mKg?usp=sharing
- The code is written in Google Colab environment.
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- sample data used in this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xYKcl2TNWnEqFlhBSX5ZXHvBenkb5hTP/view?usp=sharing
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