How to convert IPython notebooks to PDF and HTML

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I want to convert my ipython-notebooks to print them  or simply send them in html format  I have noticed that there exists a tool to do that already  nbconvert  Although I have downloaded it  I have no idea how to convert the notebook  with nbconvert2 py since nbconvert says that it is deprecated  nbconvert2 py says that I need a profile to convert the notebook  what is it  Does there exist a documentation about this tool

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If you have LaTeX installed you can download as PDF directly from Jupyter notebook with File -> Download as -> PDF via LaTeX (.pdf). Otherwise follow these two steps.

For HTML output, you should now use Jupyter in place of IPython and select File -> Download as -> HTML (.html) or run the following command:
```
jupyter nbconvert --to html notebook.ipynb  
```
This will convert the Jupyter document file notebook.ipynb into the html output format.

Google Colaboratory is Google's free Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud. If you are using Google Colab the commands are the same, but Google Colab only lets you download .ipynb or .py formats.
Convert the html file notebook.html into a pdf file called notebook.pdf. In Windows, Mac or Linux, install wkhtmltopdf. wkhtmltopdf is a command line utility to convert html to pdf using WebKit. You can download wkhtmltopdf from the linked webpage, or in many Linux distros it can be found in their repositories.
```
wkhtmltopdf notebook.html notebook.pdf   
```

_{Original (now almost obsolete) revision: Convert the IPython notebook file to html.}

^{ipython nbconvert --to html notebook.ipynb}

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For those who can t install wkhtmltopdf in their systems  one more method other than many already mentioned in the answers to this question is to simply download the file as an html file from the jupyter notebook  upload that to HTML to PDF  and download the converted pdf files from there   Here you have your IPython notebook  ipynb  converted to both PDF  pdf   amp  HTML  html  formats

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I find that the easiest method to convert a notebook which is on the web to pdf is to first view it on the web service nbviewer  You can then print it to a pdf file   If the notebook is on your local drive  then upload it to a github repository first and use its url for nbviewer

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nbconvert is not yet fully replaced by nbconvert2  you can still use it if you wish  otherwise we would have removed the executable  It s just a warning that we do not bugfix nbconvert1 anymore   The following should work      nbconvert py --format pdf yourfile ipynb    If you are on a IPython recent enough version  do not use print view  just use the the normal print dialog  Graph beeing cut in chrome is a known issue  Chrome does not respect some print css   and works much better with firefox  not all versions still   As for nbconvert2  it still highly dev and docs need to be written   Nbviewer use nbconvert2 so it s pretty decent with HTML   List of current available profiles     ls -l1 profile cut -d  -f1  base html blogger html full html latex base latex sphinx base latex sphinx howto latex sphinx manual markdown python reveal rst   Give you the existing profiles    You can create your own  cf future doc    nbconvert2 py --help-all should give you some option you can use in your profile    then       nbconvert2 py  profilename  --no-stdout --write True  lt yourfile ipynb gt    And it should write your  tex  files as long as extracted figures in cwd   Yes I know this is not obvious  and it will probably change hence no doc     The reason for that is that nbconvert2 will mainly be a python library where in pseudo code you can do     MyConverter   NBConverter config config   ipynb   read ipynb file   converted files   MyConverter convert ipynb   for file in converted files        write file    Entry point will come later  once the API is stabilized   I ll just point out that  jdfreder  github profile  is working on tex pdf sphinx export and is the expert to generate PDF from ipynb file at the time of this writing

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You can do it by 1st converting the notebook into HTML and then into PDF format  Following steps I have implemented on  OS  Ubuntu  Anaconda-Jupyter notebook  Python 3 1 Save Notebook in HTML format   Start the jupyter notebook that you want to save in HTML format  First save the notebook properly so that HTML file will have a latest saved version of your code notebook   Run the following command from the notebook itself   jupyter nbconvert --to html your notebook name ipynb   After execution will create HTML version of your notebook and will save it in the current working directory  You will see one html file will be added into the current directory with your notebook name html name  your notebook name ipynb -- gt  your notebook name html   2 Save html as PDF   Now open that your notebook name html file  click on it   It will be opened in a new tab of your browser  Now go to print option  From here you can save this file in pdf file format   Note that from print option we also have the flexibility of selecting a portion of a notebook to save in pdf format

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Also pass the --execute flag to generate the output cells jupyter nbconvert --execute --to html notebook ipynb jupyter nbconvert --execute --to pdf notebook ipynb  The best practice is to keep the output out of the notebook for version control  see  Using IPython notebooks under version control But then  if you don t pass --execute  the output won t be present in the HTML  see also  How to run an  ipynb Jupyter Notebook from terminal  For an HTML fragment without header  How to export an IPython notebook to HTML for a blog post  Tested in Jupyter 4 4 0

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Save as HTML   Ctrl   P   Save as PDF

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If you are using sagemath cloud version  you can simply go to the left corner  select File   Download as   Pdf via LaTeX   pdf Check the screenshot if you want     If it dosn t work for any reason  you can try another way  select File   Print Preview and then on the preview right click   Print and then select save as pdf

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notebook-as-pdfInstall python -m pip install notebook-as-pdf pyppeteer-install Use it You can also use it with nbconvert  jupyter-nbconvert --to PDFviaHTML filename ipynb which will create a file called filename pdf  or pip install notebook-as-pdf create pdf from notebook jupyter-nbconvert-toPDFviaHTML

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The plain python version of partizanos s answer    open Terminal  Linux  MacOS   or get to point where you can execute python files in Windows  Type the following code in a  py file  say tejas py    import os   os system  jupyter nbconvert --to pdf     f  for f in os listdir      if f endswith  ipynb       Navigate to the folder containing the jupyter notebooks Ensure that tejas py is in the current folder  Copy it to the current folder if necessary   type  python tejas py  Job done

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You can use this simple online service  It supports both HTML and PDF

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Only this answer would be useful to you if you have math  scientific formulae in your document  Even if you don t have them it works fine    Install LaTeX Install nbconvert  GUI way  open the jupyter notebook   Go to Files  gt  Download as  gt  HTML or PDF via LaTeX   Then check your Downloads folder for the file  PS  If LaTeX had any errors while compiling the PDF  it will fail  If this happens  download the HTML file and then use Web page to PDF tool or any other similar service to convert the HTML to PDF    Command-Line way  Open the terminal Navigate to the folder containing the jupyter notebook type  quot jupyter nbconvert --to pdf your jupyter notebook ipynb  quot   PS  If it fails  try Yogesh s answer

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I ve been searching for a way to save notebooks as html  since whenever I try to download as html with my new Jupyter installation  I always get a 500   Internal Server Error The error was  nbconvert failed  validate   got an unexpected keyword argument  relax add props  error  Oddly enough  I ve found that downloading as html is as simple as    Left click in the notebook Click  Save As     in the dropdown menu Save accordingly   No print preview  no print  no nbconvert  Using Jupyter Version  1 0 0  Just a suggestion to try  obviously not all setups are the same

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The simplest way I think is  Ctrl P   gt  save as  pdf   That s it

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From the docs      If you want to provide others with a static HTML or PDF view of your notebook  use the Print button  This opens a static view of the document  which you can print to PDF using your operating system   s facilities  or save to a file with your web browser   s    Save    option  note that typically  this will create both an html file and a directory called notebook name files next to it that contains all the necessary style information  so if you intend to share this  you must send the directory along with the main html file

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I can t get pdf to work yet  The docs imply I should be able to get it to work with latex  so maybe my latex is not working    ipython --version 1 1 0   ipython nbconvert --to latex  --post PDF myfile ipynb  NbConvertApp          raise child exception     OSError   Errno 2  No such file or directory   ipython nbconvert --to pdf myfile ipynb    NbConvertApp  CRITICAL   Bad config encountered during initialization     NbConvertApp  CRITICAL   The  export format  trait of a NbConvertApp instance must be any of   custom    html    latex    markdown    python    rst    slides   or None  but a value of u pdf   lt type  unicode  gt  was specified   However  HTML works great using  slides   and it is beautiful    ipython nbconvert --to slides myfile ipynb      NbConvertApp  Writing 215220 bytes to myfile slides html  Update 2014-11-07Fri   The IPython v3 syntax differs  it is simpler    ipython nbconvert --to PDF myfile ipynb  In all cases  it appears that I was missing the library  pdflatex   I m  investigating that

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I combined some answers above in inline python that u can add to    bashrc or    zshrc to compile and convert many notebooks to a single pdf file  function convert notebooks        read anything on this folder that ends on ipynb and run pdf formatting for it     python -c  import os   os system  jupyter nbconvert --to pdf     f  for f in os listdir       if f endswith  ipynb         to convert to pdf u must have installed latex and that means u have pdfjam installed   pdfjam

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Other suggested approaches   Using the  Print and then select save as pdf   from your HTML file will result in loss of border edges  highlighting of syntax  trimming of plots etc   Some other libraries have shown to be broken when it comes to using obsolete versions    Solution  A better  hassle-free option is to use an online converter which will convert the   html version of your   ipynb to   pdf  Steps   First  from your Jupyter notebook interface  convert your   ipynb to   html using    File  gt  Download as  gt  HTML  html    Upload the newly created   html file here and then select the option HTML to PDF   Your pdf file is now ready for download   You now have  ipynb   html and  pdf files

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