diff --git a/data/scripts/get_coco.sh b/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
index 0210c8ebbda4..290170a0bbc1 100755
--- a/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
+++ b/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
@@ -7,21 +7,50 @@
 # └── datasets
 #     └── coco  ← downloads here
 
+# Arguments (optional) Usage: bash data/scripts/get_coco.sh --train --val --test --segments
+if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
+  for opt in "$@"; do
+    case "${opt}" in
+    --train) train=true ;;
+    --val) val=true ;;
+    --test) test=true ;;
+    --segments) segments=true ;;
+    esac
+  done
+else
+  train=true
+  val=true
+  test=false
+  segments=false
+fi
+
 # Download/unzip labels
 d='../datasets' # unzip directory
 url=https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases/download/v1.0/
-f='coco2017labels.zip' # or 'coco2017labels-segments.zip', 68 MB
+if [ "$segments" == "true" ]; then
+  f='coco2017labels-segments.zip' # 168 MB
+else
+  f='coco2017labels.zip' # 168 MB
+fi
 echo 'Downloading' $url$f ' ...'
 curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f &
 
 # Download/unzip images
 d='../datasets/coco/images' # unzip directory
 url=http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/
-f1='train2017.zip' # 19G, 118k images
-f2='val2017.zip'   # 1G, 5k images
-f3='test2017.zip'  # 7G, 41k images (optional)
-for f in $f1 $f2; do
+if [ "$train" == "true" ]; then
+  f='train2017.zip' # 19G, 118k images
+  echo 'Downloading' $url$f '...'
+  curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f &
+fi
+if [ "$val" == "true" ]; then
+  f='val2017.zip' # 1G, 5k images
+  echo 'Downloading' $url$f '...'
+  curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f &
+fi
+if [ "$test" == "true" ]; then
+  f='test2017.zip' # 7G, 41k images (optional)
   echo 'Downloading' $url$f '...'
   curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f &
-done
+fi
 wait # finish background tasks
diff --git a/data/scripts/get_coco128.sh b/data/scripts/get_coco128.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755