[IPython-User] Simplest way to load nbviewer notebooks?

[K.-Michael Aye]

On 2013-02-27 00:18:17 +0000, Brian Granger said:

> Can you create a GitHub issue for this?

Done.
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/2985


> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We probably want a place in the dashboard where a user can enter a URL
>> or gist id to import a notebook....the dashboard has some big changes
>> on the horizon and we would need to think carefully about how this
>> would be presented to the user though.  It is also probably out of
>> scope for right now:
>> 
>> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/Roadmap:-IPython
>> 
>> But this feature request will be considered...
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:09 PM, K.-Michael Aye <kmichael.aye@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So there are bookmarklets and extensions to open your currently open gist or
>>> notebook in nbviewer, but I am still a bit hassled by the current procedure
>>> to get a nbviewer notebook to open in my local notebook:
>>> 
>>> 1. Download Notebook
>>> 
>>> 2. Safari goes on my nerves with attaching a .txt which I manually have to
>>> remove
>>> 
>>> 3. Safari kills me by asking if I really want to do this.
>>> 
>>> 4. Locate notebook file in Downloads folder
>>> 
>>> 5. Drag it onto the notebook dashboard.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Isn't there any shorter way yet? Something like the %load magic for external
>>> python scripts? Or, how about a place where I can paste the url to the
>>> notebook download in and the rest works automagically? Am I missing some
>>> trick somewhere?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any hints, and as always, thanks to the IPython team for their
>>> great work!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Brian E. Granger
>> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
>> bgranger@calpoly.edu and ellisonbg@gmail.com