How to Download CSV From a Google Colab Python Notebook
How can we download a CSV created in in Google Colab to our local machine?
I recently exported a DataFrame to CSV and needed a way to download that CSV to my computer.
Suppose we run this line in the notebook.
df.to_csv('filename.csv')
How can we download this newly created CSV file?
Using files from google.colab#
We can use built-in download functionality from google.colab to get the CSV to our local machine.
from google.colab import files
files.download('filename.csv')
Using the GUI#
We can also just use the Google Colab GUI to achieve this.
As of January 2020, we can follow these steps:
- Click the folder icon (
📁) in the left pane - If the CSV is not there, click
Refresh - Right click the CSV
- Select
Download