python - Can a Jupyter / IPython notebook take arguments in the URL?

Question

Is it possible to write an Jupyter notebook such that parameters can be passed in via the URL of the notebook?

Example, for a URL such as this:

http://jupyter.example.com/user/me/notebooks/notebook1.ipynb?Variable1=Value1&Variable2=Value2

how could access Variable1 and Variable2 inside the Jupyter cell?

Answer 1

You need to find out the URL using JavaScript and pass it to the IPython kernel:

from IPython.display import HTML
HTML('''
    <script type="text/javascript">
        IPython.notebook.kernel.execute("URL = '" + window.location + "'")
    </script>''')

or:

%%javascript
IPython.notebook.kernel.execute("URL = '" + window.location + "'");

Then in the next cell:

print(URL)

After this you can use the tools in the standard library (or plain string operations) to pull out the query parameters.