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Boris Chumichev
Boris Chumichev

Reputation: 165

Passing secret variables to Google Colaboratory notebook

Is there a secure way for public (shared with someone) Google Colaboratory notebooks to import security sensitive variables like access tokens?

I have a notebook with code like this one:

TOKEN='7o6kti1TW7ebwXXG6ZAdVkS08MzDBLG00oXTCNTYEbB5A'
items = json.loads(
  requests.get('https://someservice.com/api/items?access_token={}'.format(TOKEN)).text
)

I want share the notebook with other users so they are able to run and edit code cells, but I want to move TOKEN variable definition to some hidden place. Is there a way to achieve that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2876

Answers (2)

Bob Smith
Bob Smith

Reputation: 38619

One option is to assign the token at invocation time using getpass.

Here's an example: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1bjBVx6pokBm_A1em-XdURQAmemlUAgYz

from getpass import getpass

token = getpass('Enter token here')
print ('token is', token)

Upvotes: 6

Tomiwa
Tomiwa

Reputation: 1044

Here is the code inside @Bob Smith's linked colab

from getpass import getpass

token = getpass('Enter token here')
print ('token is', token)

Upvotes: 1

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