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Mr. President
Mr. President

Reputation: 1549

I get a "-bash: command not found" when trying to use the kaggle API

I'm trying to use the kaggle API to download competition data with my terminal. When I run the following command

$ kaggle competitions download -c titanic

I get the following message

$ -bash: kaggle: command not found

I read that this has to do with the fact that kaggle is probably installed in a binary that is not on the PATH variable. To solve my problem I tried to do the following:

$ echo $PATH

which gives

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

So I tried to find out where kaggle was installed by running

$ pip uninstall kaggle

which returned 

Uninstalling kaggle-1.3.9:
Would remove:
/Users/user/Library/Python/3.6/bin/kaggle
/Users/user/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages/kaggle-1.3.9.dist-info/*
/Users/user/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages/kaggle/*
Proceed (y/n)?

I tried adding each one of those binaries to the PATH variable by doing

$ export PATH=$PATH:~/Users/user/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages/kaggle/*

for each of them.

However, when I now run $ kaggle competitions download -c titanic I still get the same $ -bash: kaggle: command not found

Even though $ echo $PATH shows that the binaries are now on the PATH variable!

Question: What can I do to solve this problem and start using the kaggle API? Furthermore, does the fact that pip doesn't install new packages in binaries that are associated with the PATH variable mean that I've manually changed something in the past? Or do you need to add those binaries to the PATH variable once you start using pip?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1940

Answers (2)

paveltyukin
paveltyukin

Reputation: 11

If you download kaggle.json from https://www.kaggle.com/[account_name]/account

pip install kaggle
rm ~/.kaggle
mkdir ~/.kaggle
cp ~/Downloads/kaggle.json ~/.kaggle
kaggle --version

Upvotes: 1

phd
phd

Reputation: 94912

I see kaggle in /Users/user/Library/Python/3.6/bin/kaggle so add /Users/user/Library/Python/3.6/bin to $PATH and verify kaggle is available with which kaggle. It it's not — reset $PATH cacheing in the shell with hash -r.

Upvotes: 0

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