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Colaboratory: How to install and use on local machine?


Google Colab is awesome to work with, but I wish I can run Colab Notebooks completely locally and offline, just like Jupyter notebooks served from the local?

How do I do this? Is there a Colab package which I can install?


EDIT: Some previous answers to the question seem to give methods to access Colab hosted by Google. But that's not what I'm looking for.

My question is how do I pip install colab so I can run it locally like jupyter after pip install jupyter. Colab package doesn't seem to exist, so if I want it, what do I do to install it from the source?


Solution

  • From this Github link, it seems that Google Colab may not be (or remain) opensource.

    From whatever I have hunted for, the repo is here:

    git clone https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools.git
    cd colabtools
    python setup.py install
    

    And then check if you have it installed :)

    pip list | grep colab
    google-colab                       0.0.1a1
    

    Alternatively if you want a wheel (will be put inside dist folder), you shall do

    python setup.py bdist_wheel