voxel51/fiftyone

[FR] Move all zoo datasets/models to cloud storage

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#1,756 opened on May 20, 2022

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Description

Some of the datasets and models in our zoo are hosted in Google Drive, which is brittle for a number of reasons:

  • Google Drive is not intended to serve files publicly. Users have complained about failed downloads in the past, for example
  • Google Drive is not available without proxies in some places (eg China)

Example dataset stored in Google Drive: storahttps://github.com/voxel51/fiftyone/blob/22e34e91deb1d2e2fe6316ec81714e0c55015523/fiftyone/zoo/datasets/base.py#L537

Example model stored in Google Drive: https://github.com/voxel51/fiftyone/blob/22e34e91deb1d2e2fe6316ec81714e0c55015523/fiftyone/zoo/models/manifest-tf.json#L13

We should do the proper thing and migrate all file hosting to a public cloud bucket.

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Identify all Google Drive URLs in the zoo codebase, migrate those files to a public cloud bucket (e.g., AWS S3 or GCS), and update the code references to use the new URLs.
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