View and edit Jupyter Notebook (ipynb) files in terminal [closed]

I have some jupyter notebooks (ipynb) on a server, which I connected to with ssh. I can run them using ipython. However, if I want to view or edit them, for example using vim, it shows me the source code of the file (something like json).

I would like to know if there is any tool or command to view and edit them in terminal?

Answer

Jupytext can synchronize a ipynb and a corresponding py file using the following command:

jupytext --set-formats ipynb,py notebook.ipynb

Then after you edited the py file, to reflect the changes to the ipynb file you need to run the following command:

jupytext --sync notebook.ipynb

And then you can run the ipynb using ipython

However, you could create a bash file to sync and run the file after it was edited:

fname="$PWD"/"$1".ipynb
jupytext --sync $fname
ipython $fname

you can give it an alias and run it from any directory.