Instructions: Extract rar or zip files in Google Drive. Save bandwidth.

[rishu2022]

Reliable and easy method

1. Make sure you are logged in your Gdrive.

2. Goto:

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3. Click on New Notebook in pop-up. Pics:

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4. Now, in the notebook, to the extreme left, there's a 1-inch wide vertical column. Go to the column, and click on the Folder icon ("Files"). Pics:

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5. The left column expands to reveal a file explorer. Click on Google Drive icon.

6. A pop-up notification will ask : "Permit this notebook to access your Google Drive files? Connecting to Google Drive will permit code executed in this notebook to modify files in your Google Drive." Click "Connect to Google Drive".

7. Now in the file explorer, there's a new folder visible called "drive". Inside it is "MyDrive". Inside it are you Gdrive contents.

8. Navigate to your rar/zip file using the file explorer. Then, right click and copy path. You can later use this same method to copy path for destination folder (where the file is extracted) as well. Pics:

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9. Now in the main notebook space type:

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10. Click on Run Cell play button. Or, instead do Ctrl+Enter to execute code.

11. Password will be asked. Type the password (tutflix), and press Enter. Extraction begins. That's all!

12. For 'zip' files replace !unrar with !unzip command.

 

[Ceaseless]

Thanks! I notice that if your file name have spaces it won't work so you need to rename the files or connect them using dash(-)

 

[Ceaseless]

by the way, is this method free? and what do you mean by save bandwith? thanks

 

[rishu2022]

If the file name or file path has spaces in between, enclose everything in quotes.

Eg:

!unrar x -y /content/drive/MyDrive/CalebPorzio MakeVSCode Awesome.rar -d /content/drive/MyDrive

will NOT work.

!unrar x -y "/content/drive/MyDrive/CalebPorzio MakeVSCode Awesome.rar" -d "/content/drive/MyDrive"

will work.

 

[rishu2022]

You don't need to download all the files on PC/laptop for extracting them. Extract it on Google Drive, let them stay there, stream the particular video-lecture which you want.

Saves space.
Saves data.

 

[Ceaseless]

Thanks bro!

 

[Raghav]

it will only work if we have only one zip files but many of them are splitter it will not work on them and there is no option to enter password also.

 

[rishu2022]

It "will" ask for password. The -y in the above command is for asking passwords in case of password protected zips/rars.

 

[rishu2022]

Here is evidence, that it works with part rar/zip password protected files. Please try yourselves, you'll understand, as computer science students should not have that much problem understanding the syntax:

https://imgur.com/3qLEVhe

https://imgur.com/xtn2zKV

https://imgur.com/xqRGFrT

 

[Xodonkhan]

Awesome trick bro! But, Is there any limit for extraction? Or I can extract unlimited files irrespective of their sizes every day?

 

[rishu2022]

I don't know what're the limits. But it worked for 3-4 GB rar files.

 

[Raghav]

It worked bro but speed is too slow

 

[rishu2022]

Run this code in Google Colab, and share the speed:

!curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python

My Download and Upload speeds are 300Mbps +

Pic

https://imgur.com/daGxnKc

 

[rishu2022]

Just thought of adding something for my own future reference.

Download directly from static link in Gdrive using Google Colab:

Step1:

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Step 2:

To download a file -
!wget 'specify-the-url'

To resume downloading a file -
!wget -c 'specify-the-url'

To mirror an entire website -
!wget -m --page-requisites --no-parent http://example.com/exam-questions

To download an entire directory -
!wget -r ftp://example.com/folder

To download a list of files at once -
wget -i download.txt

where the download.txt contains the list of URLs.

Step 3:

Using Google Colab file explorer on left move the downloaded folders/files wherever you want.

 

[rishu2022]

Again adding something for my own future reference. Google colab comes with ffmpeg installed. We can install handbrake-cli (just like in Linux) for this.

Batch compress and convert videos to very small size in a Google Drive folder to save space using Google Colab:

[CODE lang="bash" title="Code to batch compress GDrive Videos in a folder" highlight="3,4,13"]import os, sys, re

input_folder= 'path-to-the-video-folder'
output_folder= 'path-to-output-folder'

my_suffixes = (".mp4", ".mov", ".mkv", ".avi", ".ts", ".flv", ".webm", ".wmv", ".mpg", ".m4v", ".f4v")

from pathlib import Path
Path(output_folder).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

for filename in os.listdir(input_folder):
if (filename.endswith(my_suffixes)):
cmd = !ffmpeg -stats -i "$input_folder/{filename}" -preset veryfast -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -profile:v main "$output_folder/{filename}"[/CODE]


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[AndyBill123]

it doesn't work with multiple rar file like ".rar.part1" right ?

 

[rishu2022]

it doesn't work with multiple rar file like ".rar.part1" right ?

I remember it working!

 

[AndyBill123]

I remember it working!

yeah I tried it worked

 

[Imran_Tufail]

thanks for great trick

 

[utsgoal.0000]

rishu2022 thank you so much, I used it and it worked perfectly, even with the spaces and with a file that was divided into many parts. Thank you so much!