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Get a shareable link of a file in our google drive using Colab notebook

could anyone please inform me how to automatically get a shareable link of a file in our google drive using Colab notebook?

Thank you.

Solution

  • You can use xattr to get file_id

    from subprocess import getoutput
from IPython.display import HTML
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')  # access drive
# need to install xattr
!apt-get install xattr > /dev/null
# get the id
fid = getoutput("xattr -p 'user.drive.id' '/content/drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/R.ipynb' ")
# make a link and display it
HTML(f"<a href=https://colab.research.google.com/drive/{fid} target=_blank>notebook</a>")

    Here I access my notebook file at /Colab Notebooks/R.ipynb and make a link to open it in Colab.