kaggle download dies silently

Author: rpmcruzCreated Nov 24, 2023Updated Mar 12, 2026

Greetings, We are trying to download the dataset from the UBC-OCEAN competition, which is a ZIP file with 737GB. Unexpectedly, kaggle download dies without any error message:

$ kaggle competitions download -c UBC-OCEAN
Downloading UBC-OCEAN.zip to /home/rpcruz/Transferências/theia
  1%|█                                                                                          | 8.19G/737G [04:34<5:52:29, 37.0MB/s]

We are using the latest Kaggle API (1.5.16). This only seems to happen in our server, not our workstations.

What could it be? Is there any way to make it more verbose to see what the error is? Our system administrator does not know what it could be either.