jupyterlab-h5web 0.0.6

A JupyterLab extension to explore and visualize HDF5 file contents.

jupyterlab-h5web

A JupyterLab extension to explore and visualize HDF5 file contents. Based on h5web.

WARNING: This extension is still in active development. Please report any encountered issue.

Requirements

• JupyterLab 2 (JupyterLab 3 can be used but is not officially supported).

Install

Note: You will need NodeJS to install the extension.

pip install jupyterlab_h5web
jupyter lab build

To enable support for additional filters such as blosc or bitshuffle:

pip install jupyterlab_h5web[full]
jupyter lab build

This will install hdf5plugin in addition to the extension.

Usage

Once the extension is installed, you can double-click on an HDF5 file or right-click Open with -> h5web to launch a tab.

This tab is composed of a sidebar, where you can explore the structure of the HDF5 file, and of a main area where the visualization of the selected entity takes place. This visualization is controlled by the upper-right button that can toggle between:

• Display: visualize datasets using Line, Heatmap or Matrix visualizations.
• Inspect: show the metadata and attributes of any entity

Supported file formats

jupyter-h5web detects HDF5 files based on their file extensions. The viewer works for the following extensions:

• "Classic" HDF5: .h5, .hdf5
• NeXus: .nexus, .nx, .nxs
• CXI: .cxi

For other types of files, you can change the extension to one of the supported extensions or, if it is widespread, open an issue to discuss its support.

Changelog

See https://github.com/silx-kit/jupyterlab-h5web/releases.

Troubleshoot

Check the server extension

If you are seeing the frontend extension but it is not working, check that jupyterlab_hdf is installed and enabled.

It should be listed when running:

jupyter serverextension list

If jupyterlab_hdf does not appear, try to install it manually:

pip install jupyterlab_hdf

and to enable it:

jupyter serverextension enable jupyterlab_hdf

Check the frontend extension

If jupyterlab_hdf is installed and enabled but you are not seeing the frontend, check the frontend is installed:

jupyter labextension list

If it is installed, try:

jupyter lab clean
jupyter lab build

Uninstall

pip uninstall jupyterlab_h5web
jupyter labextension uninstall jupyterlab-h5web