Jupyter Notes

Remote Access

I access Jupyter notebooks from a VM in the cloud. I set it up so infrequently that I forget how to do it, so I am recording the steps here (see reference link))

On the VM in the cloud, start jupyter. Take note of the port that it uses on localhost. It’s typically 8888.

$ jupyter notebook

On your local machine, set up SSH port forwarding,

$ ssh -N -n -L 127.0.0.1:8888:127.0.0.1:8888 -p 222 <name>@<ip address>

You should be able to see the jupyter session on the browser now, Access it by going to localhost:8888 in your browser. If you password-protect your notebooks, you would need to enter your password here.

Extracting Code from a Notebook

Sometimes I use jupyter to do some exploratory coding. At some point, I need to treat the code more formally and need to put it in its own files. This method extracts code from a notebook (stackoverflow).

$ jupyter nbconvert --to script notebook_name.ipynb

Saving a Notebook as HTML

You might need to save a notebook as an HTML to add to a webpage using the CLI. Here is stackoverflow to the rescue again:

$ jupyter nbconvert --to html notebook_name.ipynb

Viewing in github

To view rendered HTML in github, append the url of the HTML content to

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/...