nbv

Read-only Jupyter Notebook viewing using nbconvert.

Invoking

nbv notebook.ipynb

converts the notebook to HTML¹ and opens this HTML file in the default web browser.

You can get a similar result with just

nbconvert notebook.ipynb --to html --post serve

Note that this (and nbv) doesn't require a full Jupyter installation (e.g. JupyterLab) in order to run. But nbv has additional benefits²:

• doesn't pollute the notebook location with HTML (unlike the above)
• no server, just open the HTML file in browser
• simple CLI, exposing only a few nbconvert options

Note: nbv will use the nbconvert library if installed, otherwise it will fall back to the jupyter-nbconvert command.

uv examples

Use jupyter-nbconvert command:

uvx nbv notebook.ipynb

Use nbconvert library:

uvx --with nbconvert nbv notebook.ipynb

uvx --from 'nbv[complete]' nbv notebook.ipynb

uv tool install --with nbconvert nbv