Is it possible to host nbviewer locally?

Question

I want to bring nbviewer to my job. Because I am not able to share company data (place it on github), I will need to install nbviewer locally. There are instructions to set

Answer 1

Yes, nbviewer can be installed locally, that usually how we develop it. Yon can use heroku foreman if you want a setup close to heroku one with autorestart on your own machine.

If you want something easy, just clone nbviewer, install the dependencies in requirements.txt and run python app.py (maybe a submodule to git update. There might be a few environement variable to set like memcached, but you should be able to disable it if needed.

You can then open you browser to localhost:5000 and you should have your own version of nbviewer running locally.

It will not remove the necessity to have the ipynb file accessible through a local url for it to work, but if it's installed behind company firewall, that shouldn't be a problem.

Feel free to open issues on github if needed.