This is a simple chrome extension that, when clicked when viewing a Jupyter notebook on github, will open that notebook in Google Colab.

The extension simply provides a URL redirect: it reads the current URL and opens a new tab at http:https://colab.research.google.com/github/ with the user, repository, and notebook path.

The latest release of the extension can be installed from the Chrome Web Store.

To install the extension directly from source:

1. Clone this repository to your local disk.
2. Open the Chrome browser, and navigate to chrome:https://extensions.
3. Ensure that developer mode is enabled (see the switch in the upper-right).
4. Click "Load Unpacked" and choose the location of the open_in_colab repository. You should see a little colab icon appear in your Chrome extensions icons in your browser bar.
5. Navigate to a notebook on github (e.g. https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/blob/main/notebooks/colab-github-demo.ipynb), and click the extension icon to open the notebook in Colab.