Jupyter Notebook Guide

Notebooks are JSON files. Cells are in nb['cells'], each has source (list of strings) and cell_type ('code', 'markdown', or 'raw').

Modifying Notebooks

import json
with open('notebook.ipynb') as f:
    nb = json.load(f)
# Modify nb['cells'][i]['source'], then:
with open('notebook.ipynb', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(nb, f, indent=1)

Executing & Converting

jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --inplace notebook.ipynb  # Execute in place
jupyter nbconvert --to html notebook.ipynb      # Convert to HTML
jupyter nbconvert --to script notebook.ipynb    # Convert to Python