capriciousduck / colab-autorun-and-connect

Automatically connect, reconnect and optionally run the first cell of notebooks in Google Colab

Colab Autorun and Connect

Automatically connect, reconnect and optionally run the first cell of notebooks in Google Colab

Copyright © 2020 Teal Dulcet and Daniel Connelly

Firefox and Chromium add-on/WebExtension to automatically connect, reconnect and optionally run the first cell of notebooks in Google's Colaboratory (Colab) service. Useful when running Distributed Computing projects in Colab.

• Automatically connects to notebooks
• Automatically reconnects to notebooks
• Optionally automatically runs the first cell
• Desktop notifications when the notebooks change state
• Optionally rotate through Colab tabs when the system is idle or locked *
• Page action popup with the notebooks status and a stopwatch
• Detailed information output to the console
• Supports the light/dark mode of your system automatically
• Settings automatically synced between all browser instances and devices
• Follows the Firefox Photon Design
• Compatible with Firefox for Android

❤️ Please visit tealdulcet.com to support this extension and my other software development.

🔜 This will soon be published to Addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and possibly the Chrome Web Store.

Use on Chromium/Chrome requires the downloading the webextension-polyfill and renaming the chromemanifest.json file to manifest.json.

* Tab rotate does not currently work well with Firefox on Windows because of Bug 1615885.

Other Colab Extensions

• Colab Auto Reconnect (Firefox and Chrome)
• Colab Alive (Chrome)
• Colab Auto Reconnect (Chrome)

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Ideas for contributions:

• Add option to run all cells, not just the first
• Workaround the issue with Colab popups hanging
• Improve the performance

Thanks to Daniel Connelly for the idea for this extension and for helping test it!