Clone the folder as a github repository from github

Secondly, we can create a git repository of the folder and push the code to the remote repository.

Step 1: The repository can be cloned into colab using the following command to get all the files uploaded onto the colab notebook.

!git clone <repository-link>
%ls

This way we need not directly upload our files on colab notebook, rather we keep all our files on a remote repository and then fetch it into our notebook.

Google Colab is a service provided by Google for a lot of researchers and developers around the globe. It is a Jupyter Notebook-like environment in one single place without any prerequisites. It is free to use with a limited number of computer resources and engines including free access to GPUs i.e. Graphics Processing Units for accelerated parallel processing of code. It also comes with a premium version with more readily available resources computational resources. It is one of the best platforms for all students interested in the field of computer science especially machine learning, data science, artificial intelligence, etc. Colab provides a free workspace in the form of Python3 or R notebooks. These notebooks can be used to implement various compute-heavy tasks in a very easy manner.

In this article, we will learn to upload folders in our Google Colab notebook. You can also refer to the video solution for this end which is attached at the end of this article.

Prerequisite for the task – A Google Account. Refer to this article which explains how to create a Gmail account, which is equivalent to creating a Google Account.

Let’s start with uploading folders in Google Colab. There are 3 ways in which this task can be achieved: