Kaggle CLI QA: How to download a particular folder

Harshini on Medium asks

Nice Article,

But I got struck while trying to download a particular folder from kaggle competition “state-farm-distracted-driver-detection”. I want to download “img/train/c4” folder in that dataset, But when I’m trying to run the command, it’s giving an error like “404 — Not found”..

But I am able to download a particular image like this “img/train/c2/img_100029.jpg”

*Is there any command to download a particular folder??

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Hi Harshini,

Kaggle CLI does not support downloading the entire folder or multiple files at once (except in case of downloading entire competition). Only one file can be downloaded at a time via the CLI.

Here is how I downloaded the entire c4 folder

1. Created directory if it does not already exist

mkdir -p img/train/c4

2. Get the list of all files available in the dataset, filtered the files which were in the c4 folder, picked file name, repeatedly download each file.

kaggle competitions files -c state-farm-distracted-driver-detection | grep c4 | awk ‘{print $1}’ | while read x ; do kaggle competitions download -f $x state-farm-distracted-driver-detection -p img/train/c4 ; done


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I don’t use the command line regularly. These are the sources I looked:

• Read values into a shell variable from a pipe

• How to mkdir only if a dir does not already exist?

• How to use a shell command to only show the first column and last column in a text file?

kaggle competitions download -h

Hope this helps! Have a good day!

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