nbread

Snappy previews of Jupyter notebooks from the command line, with ranger integration.

Use case

• Read notebooks using just the terminal, don't need to spin up a Jupyter Notebook / Lab instance
• Read superlarge notebooks without chugging Jupyter Notebook / Lab

Usage

Run nbread notebook.ipynb for notebook preview in terminal.

$ nbread --help
usage: nbread [-h] [--paging PAGING] filename

positional arguments:
  filename

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --paging PAGING  Specify when to use the pager [auto/never/always], defaults to auto

Setup

Installation: pipx install git+https://github.com/tnwei/nbread.

Ranger integration

Use ranger as normal, and see Jupyter notebook previews in place of the underlying JSON plain text!

Do the following for ranger integration:

If your ~/.config/ranger/ dir is empty, run ranger --copy-config=all to populate it w/ the defaults.

Enabling panel preview when a notebook is highlighted: modify handle_extension() in ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh:

handle_extension(){
    case "${FILE_EXTENSION_LOWER}" in
        ### INSERT START
        ipynb)
        ¦   # Jupyter notebook previewer
            nbread "${FILE_PATH}" && { dump | trim; exit 5; } || exit 2;;
        ### INSERT END

        # Archive extensions:

Enabling fullscreen preview in terminal when a notebook is selected: add the following to ~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf:

### INSERT START
# Jupyter notebooks
ext ipynb  = nbread "$1" --pager
### INSERT END

Last tested on ranger 1.9.3, requires less installed.

Appreciation

Code heavily based on Textualize/rich-cli's notebook pretty printing. This is pretty much rich <notebook.ipynb> with some speed tweaks and standalone packaging for convenience.