IndexError: tuple index out of range (improve error message)

[karelbecerra]

Error messaging improvement's: For those of you having this issue (I do think error do not depends on competition)

Command: kaggle competitions download rsna-2024-lumbar-spine-degenerative-classification
Error: IndexError: tuple index out of range
Cause: Wrong or Expired API key
Workaround: Update your local key (~/.kaggle/kaggle.json)
Fix: Print out a diff message so user :-) do not spend 1/2 day finding a fix on google

$ kaggle competitions download rsna-2024-lumbar-spine-degenerative-classification

...

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/karel/.local/bin/kaggle", line 8, in sys.exit(main()) File "/home/karel/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/kaggle/cli.py", line 54, in main out = args.func(**command_args) File "/home/karel/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py", line 1026, in competition_download_cli self.competition_download_files(competition, path, force, File "/home/karel/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py", line 989, in competition_download_files url = response.retries.history[0].redirect_location.split('?')[0] IndexError: tuple index out of range

After playing around I found the error is related to wrong/expired API key.

note: You will find some very old similar bugs but are totally unrelated

[karelbecerra]

Forgot to mention environment:

• Kaggle API 1.6.14
• Python 3.10.12
• Ubuntu

How to reproduce: edit your ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json and type some wrong key and execute kaggle competitions download command

[ANotFox]

Agreed, there is another issue #521 which is the same as this. I see the same error and despite the issue being closed (and having retried with a fresh token), I cannot find a workaround.

How were you able to correct this though?

EDIT: It worked on on my third retry. On my first and second retry (directly from the kaggle.json file), it failed to work. On the third, I manually input in the username and key (via echo and read from terminal) and it worked. Interesting workaround, thank you for the thread.