How to automate Jupyter notebook runs?

Question

I have a general question. I often use Jupyter notebooks for prototyping. I am looking for practical ways to go to production. I know this might not be ideal, but as those are hobby notebooks, I'd like some practical solution.

So I was wondering what are the ways to:

1. Automate notebooks runs entirely at given times (ideally with a cron format)
2. Having some information (mail, notification) about whether it has runs or not and results

Answer 1

You might want to have a look at papermill, which is made to parameterize and execute notebooks.

You can either

• run noteboos from a python script or
• use the command line interface

I hope this helps.

One remark

I don't know your use case, but as a remark: in most cases python scripts might be better suited for a cron job than notebooks.