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Throwing some ideas out there, but an approach similar to using Kaggle might be worth looking into (API token as JSON file). If users can't load the token via an interactive widget, they can use environment variables to specify its path, and then proceed to download their datasets. If this works, it could be an alternative.

For Google Drive, maybe a method from OAuth2 can be used. Would it be reasonable to: run a cell, browser tab opens, credentials are entered, copy token and paste it back to the cell?

Another way (seems kinda hacky) is to use cookiestxt (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg), by storing the authenticated session in your browser, uploading it to the Colab session, and loading the cookies when retrieving the files from Drive.

Edit: Seems like even if any of these methods work, you'll still need to have a window of your drive contents open and probably can't write to the drive. Maybe getting PyDrive or something similar to work is a better idea.
Edit2: Realized you basically said the same thing in the fastai forum post. I'm going to give that a try.

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Have you tried using the method outlined by Conwyn here: https://forums.fast.ai/t/python-textfield-output-not-working/51000/12

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Thanks for the ideas! There were some questions on the [email protected] mailing list about how to do this, so I just sent an email to the list letting everyone know that there are some new ideas here :)

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I solved this problem! The solution was to allow Swift-Colab to switch between Swift mode and Python mode. In Python mode, execute the code that mounts Google Drive and uses an interactive text widget. Then, switch to Swift mode and restart the runtime. I was able to call %system ls "/content/drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks" and it worked.

At the time of making this comment, my solution hasn't been implemented into upstream Swift-Colab yet. It will be possible by the 2.0 release, though.

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