title: Can't find kaggle.json file in google colab
body: <p>I'm trying to download the kaggle imagenet object localization challenge data into google colab so that I can use it to train my model. Kaggle uses an API for easy and fast access to their datasets. (<a href="https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api</a>) However, when calling the command "kaggle competitions download -c imagenet-object-localization-challenge" in google colab, it can't find the kaggle.json file which contains my username and api-key. </p>
  
  <p>I haven't had this problem on my mac when running a jupyter notebook, but since I want to use google's gpu for my model, I started using google colab. Because the kaggle API expects the username and api-key to be in a kaggle.json file located in a .kaggle directory, I first created the directory .kaggle and then the file kaggle.json, into which I wrote my username and api-key (The example below doesn't display my username and api-key). I then tried to configure the path to my json file for kaggle to use when calling the kaggle download command.</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>!pip install kaggle
  
  !mkdir .kaggle
  !touch .kaggle/kaggle.json
  
  api_token = {"username":"username","key":"api-key"}
  
  import json
  import zipfile
  import os
  with open('/content/.kaggle/kaggle.json', 'w') as file:
      json.dump(api_token, file)
  
  !chmod 600 /content/.kaggle/kaggle.json
  !kaggle config path -p /content
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when running the last command, I got the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>IOError: Could not find kaggle.json. Make sure it's located in /root/.kaggle. Or use the environment method.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My goal was to use the following commands to get the dataset from kaggle:</p>
  
  <pre><code>!kaggle competitions download -c imagenet-object-localization-challenge
  os.chdir('/content/competitions/imagenet-object-localization-challenge')
  for file in os.listdir():
      zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile(file, 'r')
      zip_ref.extractall()
      zip_ref.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't understand why the kaggle API can't find my json file. How can I use the API in google colab?</p>