jupyterexcel 0.0.7

A Jupyter extensions to make notebooks web api for Excel to call. Jupyter Excel

jupyterexcel Package

This is a package to make Jupyter.ipynb file a web api with json result. SourceCode in JupyterExcel

This Jupyter Excel web api can be connected with Excel addin which call this web api. Excel formula will generate a web api url and thorugh winhttp to get json result.

Installation

pip install jupyterexcel

then run

jupyter serverextension enable --py jupyterexcel

Server setting

Please config jupyter server like the following:

c.NotebookApp.token = 'ABCD'   #it is good to use token mode for web api call to pass through

Example

The following screenshot shows the sample notebook file with a function sum. You can download TestingJupyter.ipynb or create your own. The following is an instance I hosted in google cloud platform, you can open and add a function of yours. ''' http://34.73.64.35:8888/Excel/TestingJupyter.ipynb?token=ABCD&functionname=sum&1=11&2=8&3=6 http://34.73.64.35:8888/notebooks/TestingJupyter.ipynb '''

The following screenshot shows how excel works.

Future Development Plan

1. Make jupyterexcel can take Post call for large data from Excel and handle Array formula
2. Make Excel client side more easier to use, such as generate Excel formula proxy
3. Possible add ribbon in Excel and call into Jupyter function with button click
4. Able to support R, Julia ....

Reference

read some code from appmode