Sharing Notebook in Google Colab

Google Colab is a cloud-based notebook for Python and R which enables users to work in machine learning and data science project as Colab provide GPU and TPU for free for a period of time. If you don't have a good CPU and GPU in your computer or you don't want to create a local environment and install and configure Anaconda the Google Colab is for you.

Creating a Colab Notebook

To start working with Colab you first need to log in to your Google account, then go to this link https://colab.research.google.com./

Click on new notebook This will create a new notebook

Now you can start working with your project using google colab

Sharing a Colab Notebook with anyone

Approach 1: By Adding Receipents Email

To share a colab notebook with anyone click on the share button at the top level

Then you can add the email of the you want to share the colab file to

And the select a privilege you want to give to the user you are trying to share Viewer, Commenter and Editor and write some message for the user and then click send.

Approach 2: By Creating sharable link

Create a shareable link and copy and share it to the person and wait for the user to ask for request a to access the file

If you don't want to give permission to access the file as more people are going to use the file then select the general access and select anyone with the link

Note: Please make sure you not giving editor access in this method as anyone can access the link and can make changes in the files