Hide Code when exporting Jupyter notebook to HTML

Question

I'm looking for a way to hide code cells (inputs) when export my .iipynb file to a HTML. I don't want the code cells to be visible at all (not some button that turn them off/on). The output is for people that have no idea what a programming language is. I tried many things that I found on the internet but nothing seems to work.

Thanks

Answer 1

as of now (nbconvert version 5.6.0) the easiest solution seems to be to provide the argument --no-input when using the CLI interface of nbconvert:

jupyter nbconvert yourNotebook.ipynb --no-input

it works like magic more info here

Answer 2

You can do this with an NBConvert template. Most of the examples out there are for latex/PDF, and won't work with HTML, which uses a different set of templates (and, for some reason, a different extension and slightly different file syntax).

Write the following into a template file called hidecode.tpl:

{%- extends 'full.tpl' -%}  {% block input_group %}     {%- if cell.metadata.get('nbconvert', {}).get('show_code', False) -%}         ((( super() )))     {%- endif -%} {% endblock input_group %} 

Then convert your notebook to HTML with:

jupyter nbconvert --to html --template hidecode YourNotebook.ipynb