Configuration options

These options can be set in ~/.jupyter/jupyter_nbconvert_config.py, or at the command line when you start it.

Application.log_datefmt : Unicode

Default: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

The date format used by logging formatters for %(asctime)s

Application.log_format : Unicode

Default: '[%(name)s]%(highlevel)s %(message)s'

The Logging format template

Application.log_level : 0|10|20|30|40|50|’DEBUG’|’INFO’|’WARN’|’ERROR’|’CRITICAL’

Default: 30

Set the log level by value or name.

JupyterApp.answer_yes : Bool

Default: False

Answer yes to any prompts.

JupyterApp.config_file : Unicode

Default: ''

Full path of a config file.

JupyterApp.config_file_name : Unicode

Default: ''

Specify a config file to load.

JupyterApp.generate_config : Bool

Default: False

Generate default config file.

NbConvertApp.export_format : ‘custom’|’html’|’latex’|’markdown’|’notebook’|’pdf’|’python’|’rst’|’script’|’slides’

Default: 'html'

The export format to be used.

NbConvertApp.notebooks : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

List of notebooks to convert. Wildcards are supported. Filenames passed positionally will be added to the list.

NbConvertApp.output_base : Unicode

Default: ''

overwrite base name use for output files. can only be used when converting one notebook at a time.

NbConvertApp.postprocessor_class : DottedOrNone

Default: ''

PostProcessor class used to write the results of the conversion

NbConvertApp.use_output_suffix : Bool

Default: True

Whether to apply a suffix prior to the extension (only relevant when converting to notebook format). The suffix is determined by the exporter, and is usually ‘.nbconvert’.

NbConvertApp.writer_class : DottedObjectName

Default: 'FilesWriter'

Writer class used to write the results of the conversion

NbConvertBase.default_language : Unicode

Default: 'ipython'

DEPRECATED default highlight language, please use language_info metadata instead

NbConvertBase.display_data_priority : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

An ordered list of preferred output type, the first encountered will usually be used when converting discarding the others.

Exporter.default_preprocessors : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

List of preprocessors available by default, by name, namespace, instance, or type.

Exporter.file_extension : FilenameExtension

Default: '.txt'

Extension of the file that should be written to disk

Exporter.preprocessors : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

List of preprocessors, by name or namespace, to enable.

TemplateExporter.filters : Dict

Default: traitlets.Undefined

Dictionary of filters, by name and namespace, to add to the Jinja environment.

TemplateExporter.raw_mimetypes : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

formats of raw cells to be included in this Exporter’s output.

TemplateExporter.template_extension : Unicode

Default: '.tpl'

No description

TemplateExporter.template_file : Unicode

Default: ''

Name of the template file to use

TemplateExporter.template_path : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

No description

LatexExporter.template_extension : Unicode

Default: '.tplx'

No description

NotebookExporter.nbformat_version : 1|2|3|4

Default: 4

The nbformat version to write. Use this to downgrade notebooks.

PDFExporter.bib_command : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

Shell command used to run bibtex.

PDFExporter.latex_command : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

Shell command used to compile latex.

PDFExporter.latex_count : Int

Default: 3

How many times latex will be called.

PDFExporter.temp_file_exts : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

File extensions of temp files to remove after running.

PDFExporter.verbose : Bool

Default: False

Whether to display the output of latex commands.

Preprocessor.enabled : Bool

Default: False

No description

CSSHTMLHeaderPreprocessor.highlight_class : Unicode

Default: '.highlight'

CSS highlight class identifier

ConvertFiguresPreprocessor.from_format : Unicode

Default: ''

Format the converter accepts

ConvertFiguresPreprocessor.to_format : Unicode

Default: ''

Format the converter writes

ExecutePreprocessor.allow_errors : Bool

Default: False

If True, a CellExecutionError is raised if any of the notebook cells raises an exception during execution. Otherwise, execution is continued and the output from the exception is included in the cell output.

ExecutePreprocessor.interrupt_on_timeout : Bool

Default: False

If execution of a cell times out, interrupt the kernel and continue executing other cells rather than throwing an error and stopping.

ExecutePreprocessor.timeout : Int

Default: 30

The time to wait (in seconds) for output from executions.

ExtractOutputPreprocessor.extract_output_types : Set

Default: traitlets.Undefined

No description

ExtractOutputPreprocessor.output_filename_template : Unicode

Default: '{unique_key}_{cell_index}_{index}{extension}'

No description

HighlightMagicsPreprocessor.languages : Dict

Default: traitlets.Undefined

Syntax highlighting for magic’s extension languages. Each item associates a language magic extension such as %%R, with a pygments lexer such as r.

RevealHelpPreprocessor.url_prefix : Unicode

Default: 'reveal.js'

The URL prefix for reveal.js. This can be a a relative URL for a local copy of reveal.js, or point to a CDN.

For speaker notes to work, a local reveal.js prefix must be used.

SVG2PDFPreprocessor.command : Unicode

Default: ''

The command to use for converting SVG to PDF

This string is a template, which will be formatted with the keys to_filename and from_filename.

The conversion call must read the SVG from {from_flename}, and write a PDF to {to_filename}.

SVG2PDFPreprocessor.inkscape : Unicode

Default: ''

The path to Inkscape, if necessary

WriterBase.files : List

Default: traitlets.Undefined

List of the files that the notebook references. Files will be included with written output.

FilesWriter.build_directory : Unicode

Default: ''

Directory to write output to. Leave blank to output to the current directory

FilesWriter.relpath : Unicode

Default: ''

When copying files that the notebook depends on, copy them in relation to this path, such that the destination filename will be os.path.relpath(filename, relpath). If FilesWriter is operating on a notebook that already exists elsewhere on disk, then the default will be the directory containing that notebook.

ServePostProcessor.ip : Unicode

Default: '127.0.0.1'

The IP address to listen on.

ServePostProcessor.open_in_browser : Bool

Default: True

Should the browser be opened automatically?

ServePostProcessor.port : Int

Default: 8000

port for the server to listen on.

ServePostProcessor.reveal_cdn : Unicode

Default: 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/reveal.js/2.6.2'

URL for reveal.js CDN.

ServePostProcessor.reveal_prefix : Unicode

Default: 'reveal.js'

URL prefix for reveal.js