How to create/modify a jupyter notebook from code (python)?

Question

I am trying to automate my project create process and would like as part of it to create a new jupyter notebook and populate it with some cells and content that I usually have in every notebook (i.e., imports, titles, etc.)

Is it possible to do this via python?

Answer 1

You can do it using nbformat. Below an example taken from Creating an IPython Notebook programatically:

import nbformat as nbf

nb = nbf.v4.new_notebook()
text = """\
# My first automatic Jupyter Notebook
This is an auto-generated notebook."""

code = """\
%pylab inline
hist(normal(size=2000), bins=50);"""

nb['cells'] = [nbf.v4.new_markdown_cell(text),
               nbf.v4.new_code_cell(code)]
fname = 'test.ipynb'

with open(fname, 'w') as f:
    nbf.write(nb, f)