Colab Alive

Keep your Colab tabs alive with this nifty extension!
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Colab Alive is a handy Chrome extension designed to keep your Google Colab notebooks active and prevent them from timing out or disconnecting. By injecting a few lines of JavaScript code into your active Colab tabs, it ensures continuous operation even if you switch away from the page.

Originally updated in March 2021 to support the latest Colab platform changes, Colab Alive leverages efficient scripts to maintain notebook connections seamlessly. This tool is especially useful for users running long computations or experiments who need uninterrupted access without manually reconnecting or refreshing. The source and inspiration are credited to a popular Medium tutorial, and the extension's updates are maintained with community contributions.

Try Colab Alive to enhance your productivity on Google Colab by preventing unwanted disconnections without extra effort!

Manifest V2 Productivity Developer Tools
By:
Rajtilak Indrajit
Users:
6,000+
Rating:
3.64
(11)
Version:
1.3.1 Last updated: 2021-03-31
Creation date:
2020-06-12
Risk:
Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Size:
85.03K
Email:
rt*****@gmail.com
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Chrome Web Store
Updated:
15 hours ago

Ranking

# 13,045 ▲ 35
Other rankings
#22977 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 27

User reviews

Pros
  • Works, Keeps opening the active sessions tab to keep the session alive.
  • Excellent!!!
  • thanks for your work
  • runs as good as you want
Cons
  • not working in Mar 2022
  • Its not working anyway, I just tried
  • I tried it and it did not work. Is there a specific way that I should be using it?
  • didn't work at all
  • love it, it will be even better if no window prompts
Recent reviews
not working in Mar 2022
by Legacy, 2022-03-07
Its not working anyway, I just tried
by Mrj T, 2021-11-04
Awesome, would be convenient if there was an option to temporarily disable it though.
by Theodore Jiang, 2021-07-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Colab Alive requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
Risk likelihood

Colab Alive has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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