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Colab-Autorun-and-Connect

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

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

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Firefox and Chromium add-on/WebExtension to automatically connect, reconnect and optionally run the first cell of notebooks in Google's [Colaboratory](https://colab.research.google.com/) (Colab) service. Useful when running [Distributed Computing projects in Colab](https://github.com/tdulcet/Distributed-Computing-Scripts/tree/master/google-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
* Use a keyboard shortcut to quickly open the popup (by default <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd>)
* 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](https://design.firefox.com/photon)
* Compatible with Firefox for Android

❤️ Please visit [tealdulcet.com](https://www.tealdulcet.com/) to support this extension and my other software development.

\* Tab rotate does not currently work well with Firefox on Windows because of [Bug 1615885](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615885).

## Download

* [Addons.mozilla.org](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/colab-autorun-and-connect/) (AMO)

## Install from source

Clone the repository:
```bash
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tdulcet/Colab-Autorun-and-Connect.git
```

### Firefox

Follow [these instructions](https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/temporary-installation-in-firefox/) to install it in Firefox

### Chromium/Chrome

1. Download the [webextension-polyfill](https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill) (specifically download the `browser-polyfill.js` file [from here](https://unpkg.com/webextension-polyfill/dist/))
2. Rename the [chromemanifest.json](chromemanifest.json) file to `manifest.json`
3. Follow [these instructions](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/get-started/tutorial/hello-world) to install it in Chromium/Chrome

## Other Colab Extensions

* [Colab Auto Reconnect](https://github.com/ZohebAbai/Colab_Auto_Reconnect) (Firefox and Chrome)
* [Colab Alive](https://github.com/rtindru/colabAlive) (Chrome)
* [Colab Auto Reconnect](https://github.com/charlie890414/Colab-Auto-Reconnect) (Chrome)

## Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Ideas for contributions:

* Convert to [Manifest V3](https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/manifest-v3-migration-guide/) (MV3)
* Refactor into more modules
* Add option to run all cells, not just the first
* Workaround the issue with Colab popups hanging
* Support when the Colab interface is not in English
* Improve the performance
* Allow installing in Firefox for Android from AMO (see [here](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20736) and [bug 1796184](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1796184)) and sync settings (see [bug 1625257](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625257))
* Localize the add-on

Thanks to [Daniel Connelly](https://github.com/Danc2050) for the idea for this extension and for helping test it!

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