How to run a Jupyter notebook .ipynb in python file .py?

Question

I have some Jupyter notebooks and I want them to be executed using a main.py file.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can convert the .ipynb file to a plain .py file using any of the methods mentioned here -

How do I convert a IPython Notebook into a Python file via commandline?

If, like me, you don't have access to the command line tools required - you can extract the source code from the .ipynb file as it is mostly a json file

import json
with open('somefile.ipynb') as f:
 nb_content = json.load(f)
for cell in nb_content['cells']:
 print(*cell['source'])

That should print out the whole source code to your terminal