Make a runnable link to Colaboratory notebook

Question

Someone share a Jupyter notebook via Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B88HiG_KpEbQcVhNa1NpZzVrT3c/view?usp=sharing

I want to make the link a runnable version on Google Colab instead. How do I do that?

Answer 1

First take the ID part from the Drive URL. Here the ID is 0B88HiG_KpEbQcVhNa1NpZzVrT3c

Then put it in the fileId parameter in Colab URL, like this. https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=0B88HiG_KpEbQcVhNa1NpZzVrT3c&offline=true&sandboxMode=true

Notice the offline and sandboxMode parameters. Without them, the notebook will be read-only. In that case, you need to either duplicate it or change to playground mode to make it runnable

update

Newer URL is in this format instead:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/0B88HiG_KpEbQcVhNa1NpZzVrT3c#offline=true&sandboxMode=true

Answer 2

Easiest method- when the notebook is open in Colab:

1. Click the Share button in the top right.
2. Copy the link provided at the top of the Sharing dialog.