# googlecolab/google-colab-cli

> A command-line interface for Google Colab that provisions CPU, GPU, or TPU runtimes, runs local scripts and notebooks remotely, and manages files on the VM from the terminal. Aimed at developers and automation pipelines that need Colab compute without the browser.

- Magnitude: 4.9 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 2,181 total · +45 stars measured 2026-11-10, 00:36–06:03 UTC, ≈ 123 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Python · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-04-17 · Last push: 2026-11-10
- GitHub: https://github.com/googlecolab/google-colab-cli · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/googlecolab/google-colab-cli

## Useful for

- Run a local training script on a fresh A100 VM and download the resulting weights
- Execute a Jupyter notebook remotely and export the run history as Markdown
- Use the CLI as an OpenSSH ProxyCommand to connect an IDE to a Colab runtime

## How to get started

```sh
# Using uv (recommended)
uv tool install google-colab-cli

# Using pip
pip install google-colab-cli
```

Copied as is from the “installation” section of the README. GitNova has not run these commands: check them in the original before running: https://github.com/googlecolab/google-colab-cli#readme

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-10 (UTC), 00:36–06:03: 2136 → 2181 stars (+45). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +123 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 3.4× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 307
- Issues and pull requests: 208
- Watchers: 22
- Average over the last week: 72 per day
- Usual pace: 12 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 8

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-12 … 2026-11-10: 14, 22, 12, 14, 12, 7, 7, 18, 11, 14, 13, 11, 12, 7, 12, 10, 11, 9, 13, 13, 11, 13, 12, 19, 31, 45, 148, 55, 81, 45

## Magnitude by day, last 3 days

11-08 4.9, 11-09 4.3, 11-10 4.9

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/amgallego8/Colab-MCP.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-10 06:13 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.