How to access files from Google Drive in Colab with just 2 lines

2 min readJan 30, 2021

I came across multiple solutions to access files from Google drive in Colab notebooks asking to install wrappers or utilities and what not.

However, accessing files from Google drive can be done just with these 2 lines of code:

from google.colab import drivedrive.mount('/content/drive')

This will generate a url in Colab, click that, which will open up a new tab, choose your Google account, allow access. This will generate a token, copy that and paste back in the blank field in Colab.

After the drive has been mounted follow the next step.

Now to access files from drive: prefix this : ‘drive/My Drive’ to your file path.

For example, I want to read a file data.txt from a directory datasets in my Google drive. For this just read file as ‘drive/My Drive/datasets/data.txt’ !

And you are good to go.

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