is there any way to share ipynb as a web service?

[Bishi]

Hello all.

I would like to know is there any way to share ipynb as a web service?

For example, I have a completed script with some configureable parameters, I want to share this script to someone else, so they can get the latest result via running that script and I don't need to write a web APP as I'm not familar with writing JS.

I found ipywidgets which is very useful for the users to input text/int/date as the parameters. But I'm not sure how to convert this to a web service.

I think the users should not add/modify the existing cells in the ipynb file I shared. They can just run the existing cells. So it will be a good web service.

So, could you tell me there's anything wrong about my thoughts?

If what I think is right, how can I prevent the users to add/modify the existing cells? I think maybe modify some jupyter source will work. But I don't know where to start.

Thanks.

[Peter Parente]

Hi Bishi,

Both https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/dashboards_server and https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe come to mind for your use case. Temper your expectations though: both require some amount of setup and neither has much active development going on at the moment.

Cheers,

Pete

[Bishi]

Hello Peter.

Thanks for your kindness help.

I found both of them works for my needs. But I aslo found them a little complicated for my simple task.

After reading the source of some jupyter extensions, I write a very simple extension, it just do the following:

1. hide menu/toolbar

2. disable ipynb save and cell edit

As my ipynb file would share to people trusted, I didn't do any server-side validation. Maybe I'll do it in future.

[Peter Parente]

HI Bishi,

Thanks for sharing what you did as your solution. It's great that you were able to write an extension to fit your needs.

Cheers,

Pete