Colab Setup

All of the examples, tutorials and demo notebooks in this documentation are designed to be executable in any type of Python notebook.

To run them in Colab, please follow the special instructions below for technical setup:

1. Store your API key as a secret

In Google Colab, your API keys can be stored as “secrets” in lieu of storing them in a .env file as you would in other notebook types.

For example, you can store your Expected Parrot API key as follows:

Run the following command in a code cell to install the EDSL package:

pip install edsl

Run the following code to access your API key in your Colab notebook:

import os
from google.colab import userdata

os.environ['EXPECTED_PARROT_API_KEY'] = userdata.get('EXPECTED_PARROT_API_KEY')

EDSL methods for creating objects and posting them to the Coop are now available to you in Colab.

Here’s a snapshot of how your Colab code might look:

Special instructions for connecting your Google Drive to post Colab notebooks to Coop are available in the Colab Notebooks section.