Permission denied while downloading dataset from Kaggle API - permission-denied

Question

I am using Google cloud services and I want to download kaggle dataset. I have followed the standard ways for authentication but still, I am getting "Permission denied" error
My approach:
I have tried the following method:
(1) Installing kaggle using pip
(2) placing the kaggle.json file in /.kaggle directory
(3) ''' chmod 600 /home/rushirajparmar23000/.kaggle/kaggle.json '''
(4) ''' echo '{"username":"USERNAME","key":"KEY"}' >/root/.kaggle/kaggle.json '''
error : -bash: /root/.kaggle/kaggle.json: Permission denied
(5) kaggle competitions download -c facebook-recruiting-iii-keyword-extraction
error: raise ValueError('Error: Missing %s in configuration.' % item)
ValueError: Error: Missing username in configuration.

Answer 1

Maybe this discussion in the kaggle forum might answer your question:
https://www.kaggle.com/general/51898
It has a script you can run to do what you want.

Answer 2

When I wanted to download a dataset, I got this error. (I think it's related to your question)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/matin/.local/bin/kaggle", line 5, in <module>
from kaggle.cli import main
File "/home/matin/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/kaggle/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
from kaggle.api.kaggle_api_extended import KaggleApi
File "/home/matin/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/kaggle/api/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
from kaggle.api.kaggle_api_extended import KaggleApi
File "/home/matin/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py", line 84, in <module>
class KaggleApi(KaggleApi):
File "/home/matin/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py", line 102, in KaggleApi
os.makedirs(config_dir)
File "/home/matin/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/os.py", line 225, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/kaggle.json'
Solution
sudo mkdir /.kaggle
sudo cp kaggle.json /.kaggle
sudo chmod 600 /.kaggle/kaggle.json
sudo chown `whoami`: /.kaggle/kaggle.json
export KAGGLE_CONFIG_DIR='/.kaggle/'
Explanation
In KaggleApi source code, it's trying to find a directory from the environment.
config_dir = os.environ.get('KAGGLE_CONFIG_DIR') or os.path.join(
expanduser('~'), '.kaggle')
if not os.path.exists(config_dir):
os.makedirs(config_dir)
So if you add KAGGLE_CONFIG_DIR to your environment, it doesn't try to make a directory!
If you got ValueError: Error: Missing username in configuration., you should just change the owner by using chown command.

Answer 3

This worked for me
removed the .kaggle directory that was created when installing the kaggle API:
rm -r .kaggle/
created a new .kaggle directory in the home directory:
mkdir .kaggle
downloaded the kaggle.json file from my kaggle account:
copied the kaggle.json to .kaggle/:
cp ~/Downloads/kaggle.json .kaggle/
chmod 600 .kaggle/kaggle.json