Running an IPython/Jupyter notebook non-interactively
ipython, jupyter-notebook
Solution
Yes it is possible, and easy, it will (mostly) be in IPython core for 2.0, I would suggest looking at those examples for now.
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$ jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute original.ipynb --output=new.ipynb
It is now in Jupyter NbConvert. NbConvert comes with a bunch of `Preprocessor`s that are disabled by default, two of them (`ClearOutputPreprocessor` and `ExecutePreprocessor`) are of interest. You can either enabled them in your (local|global) config file(s) via `c.<PreprocessorName>.enabled=True` (Uppercase that's python), or on the command line with `--ExecutePreprocessor.enabled=True` keep the rest of the command as usual.
The `--ExecutePreprocessor.enabled=True` has convenient `--execute` alias that can be used on recent version of NbConvert. It can be combine with `--inplace` if desired
For example, convert to html after running the notebook headless :
`$ jupyter nbconvert --to=html --execute RunMe.ipynb `
converting to PDF after stripping outputs
`$ ipython nbconvert --to=pdf --ClearOutputPreprocessor.enabled=True RunMe.ipynb `
This (of course) does work with non-python kernels by spawning a `<insert-your-language-here>` kernel, if you set `--profile=<your fav profile>`. The conversion can be really long as it needs to rerun the notebook. You can do notebook to notebook conversion with the `--to=notebook` option.
There are various other options (timeout, allow errors, ...) that might need to be set/unset depending on use case. See documentation and of course `jupyter nbconvert --help`, `--help-all`, or nbconvert online documentation for more information.
Problem
Does anyone know if it is possible to run an IPython/Jupyter notebook non-interactively from the command line and have the resulting `.ipynb` file saved with the results of the run. If it isn't already possible, how hard would it be to implement with phantomJS, something to turn the kernel on and off, and something to turn the web server on and off? To be more specific, let's assume I already have a notebook `original.ipynb` and I want to rerun all cells in that notebook and save the results in a new notebook `new.ipynb`, but do this with one single command on the command line without requiring interaction either in the browser or to close the kernel or web server, and assuming no kernel or web server is already running. example command: `$ ipython notebook run original.ipynb --output=new.ipynb`