Run in a cell in a jupyter notebook to get all files in a tgz archive to download

download_dir_as_tgz.py

import os
import tarfile
tarFileName='currdir.tar'
def RecursiveFiles(dn='.',ignoreTarFile=tarFileName):
    ignore={'.pynb_checkpoints','pycache',ignoreTarFile}
    for dirname,subdirs,files in os.walk(dn):
        if os.path.basename(dirname) in ignore: continue
        for fn in files:
            fname=os.path.join(dirname,fn)
            yield(fname)
        return # there is a return, it should be deleted if it doesn't work

def makeTarFile(dn='.',tfn=tarFileName):
    tar=tarfile.open(tfn,'w')
    for name in RecursiveFiles(dn,tfn):
        tar.add(name)
    tar.close()

makeTarFile()