Zindi_colab

Download Zindi's compositions datasets directly to google colab

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What is Zindi?

Zindi is Zindi is a social enterprise whose mission is to build the data science ecosystem in Africa. Our vision is for a vibrant community of data scientists across Africa, mobilized towards solving the region’s most pressing problems.

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How to download Zindi's Datasets directly to Colab ?

we need to get the URL and the authentication value

1. joining the competition
2. Right click in the page + Inspect
3. click the top left icon or (Ctrl + shift +c)
4. then click on the dataset name (training for example ) you will see that the right page will show the Web script which contain the URL of the dataset and the authentication value
5. copy them and use the python script in colab to download them directly

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import requests
import requests, zipfile

#the url and auth_value from the website 
url = 'https://api.zindi.africa/v1/competitions/iclr-workshop-challenge-1-cgiar-computer-vision-for-crop-disease/files/train.zip'
myobj = {'auth_token': 'sfffghgghgvkhuf'} #use your own

x = requests.post(url, data = myobj,stream=True)
target_path = 'data.zip'

handle = open(target_path, "wb")
for chunk in x.iter_content(chunk_size=512):
    if chunk:  # filter out keep-alive new chunks
        handle.write(chunk)
handle.close()

!unzip -qq /content/data.zip

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