drive.flush_and_unmount() from google.colab import drive drive.mount('/content/drive') DRIVE UPLOAD import os # Replace this with your URL url = "https://example.com/path/to/your/file.zip" # Choose destination path in your Google Drive # Example: saving into "MyDrive/Downloads" folder output_path = "/content/drive/MyDrive/Downloads/file.zip" # Make sure destination folder exists os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(output_path), exist_ok=True) # Download the file using wget !wget -O "{output_path}" "{url}" ZIP TO UNZIP !unzip "/content/drive/MyDrive/Downloads/file.zip" -d "/content/drive/MyDrive/Downloads/" !apt-get install unrar -y !unrar x "/content/drive/MyDrive/Downloads/file.rar" "/content/drive/MyDrive/Downloads/" To extract files from a remote URL in Google Colab and directly save them to your Google Drive, you can follow this simple step-by-step method. ✅ STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE 1. Mount Google Drive from google.colab import drive drive.mount('/content/drive') This gives Colab access to your Google Drive. After running, you'll get a link to authorize access. Paste the code it gives you. 2. Set Destination Folder in Drive Set the path where you want to save the extracted files (you can change this): import os drive_folder = '/content/drive/MyDrive/ExtractedFiles' os.makedirs(drive_folder, exist_ok=True) 3. Download File from Remote URL Let's assume you want to download a zip file from a remote URL: import requests # URL of the remote file (e.g., zip) url = 'https://example.com/somefile.zip' # Replace this with your file URL filename = url.split('/')[-1] local_path = os.path.join('/content', filename) # Download the file response = requests.get(url) with open(local_path, 'wb') as f: f.write(response.content) print(f"Downloaded to {local_path}") 4. Extract ZIP File If the file is a ZIP archive: import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile(local_path, 'r') as zip_ref: zip_ref.extractall(drive_folder) print(f"Extracted to {drive_folder}") 🧩 For .tar, .tar.gz, or .rar files Use tarfile for .tar or .tar.gz: import tarfile with tarfile.open(local_path, 'r:*') as tar: tar.extractall(path=drive_folder) Use rarfile for .rar (requires installing rarfile and unrar): !apt install unrar !pip install rarfile import rarfile rf = rarfile.RarFile(local_path) rf.extractall(path=drive_folder) ✅ Done! Now your extracted files are saved directly in your Google Drive under the folder MyDrive/ExtractedFiles.