ImadSaddik/UnzipFromDrive

Unzip files from Google Drive with Python

This repository contains a script that allows you to connect to your Google Drive, read a zip file and unzip it. The unzipped file will be directly stored in your Google Drive, this is very useful because there is no option to unzip a file directly from the Google Drive UI.

How it works

There is one script called main.ipynb and here is a description of what it does.

First, we import shutil. This library will be used to unzip the zip file.

import shutil

After that, we connect to our Google Drive.

from google.colab import drive

drive.mount('/content/drive')

Finally, we specify the location of the zip file. Make sure to change path_to_file_dir and your_file.zip

file_dir_path = "/path_to_file_dir"

shutil.unpack_archive(f"{file_dir_path}/your_file.zip", file_dir_path)

I hope this helps.