Colab Spellcheck

Check your spelling in Google Colab!
What is Colab Spellcheck?
Colab Spellcheck is a Chrome extension that allows you to check your spelling in Google Colab. It spellchecks markdown cells in notebooks, making it ideal for proofreading homework, presentations, or notes. Use GrammarBot for accurate spell checking by setting up the extension with a free limited-use key.

Extension stats

Users: 369 ▲ 17
Rating: 1.00 (1)
Version: 0.1.2 (Last updated: 2022-01-13)
Creation date: 2021-11-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 460.80K

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Extension summary

This extension spellchecks markdown cells in notebooks open in Google Colab, perfect for proofreading your homework, presentations, or notes.

Note that it uses GrammarBot to do most of the heavy lifting, and you can get a limited-use key for free (no credit card required). Please perform the following setup to use this extension:

** FIRST TIME SET-UP **

  1. Add this extension to Chrome
  2. Sign up for GrammarBot at https://www.grammarbot.io/signup
  3. Copy your GrammarBot API key
  4. In this extension, go to Settings and paste your key; click Save
  5. Done!

** DIRECTIONS FOR USE ** After completing the set-up above, you're ready to go! Just:

  1. Open your Python notebook in Colab
  2. Click on a text/markdown cell to make it active
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User reviews

Doesn't work. In a notebook with text and code cells always returns "Error. Please make a text/markdown cell active (not code)" when a text cell is selected. In a notebook with only 1 text cell with misspellings, returns nothing.
by Richard Voss, 2024-02-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Colab Spellcheck requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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