How to run jupyter notebook in the background ? No need to keep one terminal for it

Question

Often we run jupyter notebook to pop up a page in browser to use notebook. However, the terminal opening the server remains there. Is there a way that we can cl

Answer 1

Not real sophisticated but it gets the job done:

#! /bin/bash

#probably should change this to a case switch

if [ "$1" == "end" ]
    then
        echo
        echo "Shutting Down jupyter-notebook"
        killall jupyter-notebook
        echo
      exit 0
 fi

if [ "$1" == "-h" ]
   then
        echo   
        echo "To start  : jnote  [default 8888]" 
        echo "To end    : jnote end"
        echo "This help : jnote -h"
        echo
      exit 0
 fi

#cast from string
PORT=$(($1))

RETURN=0
PID=0

if [ "$PORT" == "0" ] || [ "$PORT" == "" ]; then PORT=8888; fi

echo
echo "Starting jupyter-notebook"

#background and headless, set port, allow colab access, capture log, don't open browser yet

nohup jupyter notebook \
 --NotebookApp.allow_origin='https://colab.research.google.com' \
 --port=$PORT --NotebookApp.port_retries=0 \
 --no-browser >~/jnote.log 2>&1 &

RETURN=$?
PID=$!

#Wait for bg process to complete - add as needed
sleep 2

if [ $RETURN == 0 ]
   then
        echo
        echo "Jupyter started on port $PORT and pid $PID"
        echo "Goto `cat ~/jnote.log | grep localhost: | grep -v NotebookApp`"
        echo
      exit 0
   else
        echo 
        echo "Jupyter failed to start on port $PORT and pid $PID with return code $RETURN"
        echo "see ~/jnote.log"
        echo
      exit $RETURN
 fi