Kaggle API

17 Feb 2018 on Project

1. Download API token from account setting

2. install kaggle api

$ pip install kaggle

3. locate api token (kaggle.json) into ~/.kaggle/

$ mv ~/Downloads/kaggle.json ~/.kaggle/

$ cd ~/.kaggle/
$ ls
kaggle.json

4. use kaggle API

- download competition data via API

# move directory to what you want to place data

$ kaggle competitions download -c data-science-bowl-2018

# install unzip
$ sudo apt-get install unzip

$ mv ~/.kaggle/competitions/data-science-bowl-2018/* ~/dev/data-science-bowl-2018/
$ cd ~/dev/data-science-bowl-2018/
$ unzip stage1_train.zip
$ unzip stage1_test.zip
$ unzip stage1_sample_submission.csv.zip

- submit your submission file via API

$ kaggle competitions submit -c data-science-bowl-2018 -f submission.csv -m "Message"

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Reference

kaggle API - github