nbview

README

NBVIEW

nbview is a lightweight utility for viewing Jupyter Notebook files in your terminal.

Features

• Cross-platform. Compiles to a multi-platform executable.
• No dependencies. nbview binary is self contained.
• No need for a Notebook server. *.ipynb files are rendered as text in a terminal buffer.
• Fully-fledged Python syntax highlighting based on Pygments.

Installation

The simplest way to install nbview is to download the binary for your platform. Rename the binary to nbview and add it to your $PATH, for example by copying it to usr/local/bin.

Build from source

make PLATFORM

where PLATFORM is either ubuntu, linux, darwin, or windows. The executable will appear in bin/PLATFORM/nbview and from there it can be added to your $PATH variable.

Usage

nbview FILENAME

FILENAME can be either a local or a remote notebook file. The Notebook is loaded into a scrollable buffer, which can be navigated using arrow keys. To exit, press q or esc.