# Source: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/notebooks.md

# Jupyter Notebooks on the Hugging Face Hub

[Jupyter notebooks](https://jupyter.org/) are a very popular format for sharing code and data analysis for machine learning and data science. They are interactive documents that can contain code, visualizations, and text.

## Open models in Google Colab and Kaggle

When you visit a model page on the Hugging Face Hub, you’ll see a new “Google Colab”/ "Kaggle" button in the “Use this model” drop down. Clicking this will generate a ready-to-run notebook with basic code to load and test the model. This is perfect for quick prototyping, inference testing, or fine-tuning experiments — all without leaving your browser.

![Google Colab and Kaggle option for models on the Hub](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/blog/hf-google-colab/gemma3-4b-it-dark.png)

Users can also access a ready-to-run notebook by appending /colab to the model card’s URL. As an example, for the latest Gemma 3 4B IT model, the corresponding Colab notebook can be reached by taking the model card URL:
https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it

And then appending `/colab` to it:
https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it/colab

and similarly for kaggle:
https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it/kaggle

If a model repository includes a file called `notebook.ipynb`, we will use it for Colab and Kaggle instead of the auto-generated notebook content. Model authors can provide tailored examples, detailed walkthroughs, or advanced use cases while still benefiting from one-click Colab integration. [NousResearch/Genstruct-7B](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Genstruct-7B) is one such example.

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/blog/hf-google-colab/genstruct-notebook-dark.png)

## Rendering .ipynb Jupyter notebooks on the Hub

Under the hood, Jupyter Notebook files (usually shared with a `.ipynb` extension) are JSON files. While viewing these files directly is possible, it's not a format intended to be read by humans. The Hub has rendering support for notebooks hosted on the Hub. This means that notebooks are displayed in a human-readable format.

![Before and after notebook rendering](https://huggingface.co/blog/assets/135_notebooks-hub/before_after_notebook_rendering.png)

Notebooks will be rendered when included in any type of repository on the Hub. This includes models, datasets, and Spaces.

### Launch in Google Colab

[Google Colab](https://colab.google/) is a free Jupyter Notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud. It's a great way to run Jupyter Notebooks without having to install anything on your local machine. 

All .ipynb files hosted on the Hub are automatically given a "Open in Colab" button. This allows you to open the notebook in Colab with a single click.