ipynbname
When run in a Jupyter notebook, simply returns the notebook filename or the full path to the notebook. I created this to help with automating posting blog posts written in Jupyter notebooks directly to GitHub Pages.
You would think there was already some built-in way to access the current notebook name, but it took many hours of searching for a way to do it. As it seems many others did, I tried using Javascript, but the async nature of JS meant that it was unreliable. Finally I stumbled on this post. I have refactored the code there so a user can get either the name or path, but credit for most of the code goes to the author of this post, thanks!
Examples
Get the notebook name:
import ipynbname
nb_fname = ipynbname.name()
Get the full path to the notebook:
import ipynbname
nb_path = ipynbname.path()
Limitations
Note that this only reliably works when running a notebook in a browser. So it does not currently work for things like nbconvert or papermill.
For VS Code there is a workaround.
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