nbconvert 6.0.0a6

Converting Jupyter Notebooks

nbconvert

Jupyter Notebook Conversion

The nbconvert tool, jupyter nbconvert, converts notebooks to various other formats via Jinja templates. The nbconvert tool allows you to convert an .ipynb notebook file into various static formats including:

• HTML
• LaTeX
• PDF
• Reveal JS
• Markdown (md)
• ReStructured Text (rst)
• executable script

Usage

From the command line, use nbconvert to convert a Jupyter notebook (input) to a a different format (output). The basic command structure is:

$ jupyter nbconvert --to <output format> <input notebook>

where <output format> is the desired output format and <input notebook> is the filename of the Jupyter notebook.

Example: Convert a notebook to HTML

Convert Jupyter notebook file, mynotebook.ipynb, to HTML using:

$ jupyter nbconvert --to html mynotebook.ipynb

This command creates an HTML output file named mynotebook.html.

Dev Install

Check if pandoc is installed (pandoc --version); if needed, install:

sudo apt-get install pandoc

Or

brew install pandoc

Install nbconvert for development using:

git clone https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert.git
cd nbconvert
pip install -e .

Running the tests after a dev install above:

pip install nbconvert[test]
py.test --pyargs nbconvert

Resources

• Documentation for Jupyter nbconvert [PDF]
• nbconvert examples on GitHub
• Issues
• Technical support - Jupyter Google Group
• Project Jupyter website
• Documentation for Project Jupyter [PDF]