Open in Colab Chrome Extension

This is a simple Chrome extension that, when clicked while 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 https://colab.research.google.com/github/ (or /gist/) with the user, repository, and notebook path.

The extension supports the following GitHub pages:

• Notebook preview page when browsing a repository's files, e.g. https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/blob/main/notebooks/Gemma_Distributed_Fine_tuning_on_TPU.ipynb
• Gists with .ipynb files, e.g. https://gist.github.com/peap/f9e32370dd789d4fb2ca470fe8de3931.

Installing the Extension

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

Support

For help with this Chrome extension, use the issue tracker.

For general help with Colab, see the FAQ. For known issues, or to report a new one, see the colabtools issue tracker.

Change Log

Version 1.2.1 (2025-11-11):

• Support opening .ipynb files in Colab from the "Code" view for repository files or the "source blob" view for Gists.

Version 1.2.0 (2024-12-16):

• Add a link to Open in Colab's GitHub repo from the Chrome Web Store page. Fixes #3.
• Show a helpful popup when the extension icon is clicked on an unsupported page. Fixes #1.

Version 1.1.0 (2023-12-07):

• Fix Gist URL handling.
• Migrate to Manifest v3.

Version 1.0.1 (2020-11-25):

• Update extension icons.

Version 1.0 (2018)

• Initial release.