Running the Notebook

Start the notebook server from the command line:

You should see the notebook open in your browser.

After you have installed the Jupyter Notebook on your computer, you are ready to run the notebook server. You can start the notebook server from the command line (using Terminal on Mac/Linux, Command Prompt on Windows) by running:

This will print some information about the notebook server in your terminal, including the URL of the web application (by default, http://localhost:8888):

It will then open your default web browser to this URL.

When the notebook opens in your browser, you will see the Notebook Dashboard, which will show a list of the notebooks, files, and subdirectories in the directory where the notebook server was started. Most of the time, you will wish to start a notebook server in the highest level directory containing notebooks. Often this will be your home directory.

Notebook Dashboard

The following code should open the given notebook in the currently running notebook server, starting one if necessary.

By default, the notebook server starts on port 8888. If port 8888 is unavailable or in use, the notebook server searches the next available port. You may also specify a port manually. In this example, we set the server鈥檚 port to 9999:

Start notebook server without opening a web browser:

The notebook server provides help messages for other command line arguments using the --help flag:

See also

Detailed information about command line arguments, configuration, and usage.

Notebooks can be executed from your terminal using the execute subcommand. It expects notebook paths as input arguments and accepts optional flags to modify the default behavior.

Running a notebook is this easy.

You can pass more than one notebook as well.

By default, notebook errors will be raised and printed into the terminal. You can suppress them by passing the --allow-errors flag.

For more sophisticated execution options, consider the papermill library.