WassimBenzarti/colab-ssh

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1079 stars · 130 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A lightweight Python library that sets up an SSH tunnel to a remote Jupyter notebook environment like Google Colab, optionally integrating with VSCode Remote and Git/Gitlab cloning. It is launched from a notebook cell to expose the instance over SSH via cloudflared.

Use cases

• connect to google colab via ssh
• open colab notebook in vscode
• ssh tunnel into a cloud jupyter notebook
• clone a github repo into colab from terminal
• use local ide tools with a remote notebook

When to choose

• you want to edit and run Colab code from VSCode or a local terminal
• you need SSH access to a hosted Jupyter notebook environment
• you want to clone a Git repository directly into the remote notebook

When to avoid

• Google Colab now prohibits SSH usage, so this may violate Colab's terms or risk account restrictions
• you need support for Kaggle or Deepnote, which is not yet available
• you need an actively developed solution - the project is in maintenance mode

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

ssh developer-tools networking developer-tools data-science cloud-computing python cloud cli google-colab ssh-tunnel vscode-remote jupyter-notebook cloudflared

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