nbmerge 0.0.4
A tool to merge / concatenate Jupyter (IPython) notebooks
License: MIT
Keywords: jupyter

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``nbmerge``: merge / concatenate Jupyter notebooks
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Installation
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.. code:: sh

    pip install nbmerge

Usage
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For the usage as originally specified by 
`@fperez <https://github.com/fperez>`__'s gist, 

.. code:: sh

    nbmerge file_1.ipynb file_2.ipynb file_3.ipynb > merged.ipynb

Alternatively, nbmerge can cursively collect all files in the current
directory and below, recursively. After collection, it sorts them
lexicographically. You can use a regular expression as a file name
predicate. All ``.ipynb_checkpoints`` are automatically ignored. And, you
can use the ``-i`` option to ignore any notebook prefixed with an underscore
(think pseudo-private in python). 

For example, the following command collects all notebooks in your project
that have the word ``intro`` in the file name and saves it to a merged file
named ``_merged.ipynb``,

.. code:: sh

    nbmerge --recursive -i -p ".*intro.*" -o _merged.ipynb

Finally, you can also instruct the script to demarcate the boundary
between each original file with the ``-b`` / ``-boundary [BOUNDARY]`` flag.
The ``src_nb`` value in the metadata for the first cell in each original
notebook will then contain the path of the original notebook, relative to
the cwd at the point of script execution.

Lineage
=======

`@fperez <https://github.com/fperez>`__ wrote an
`nbmerge.py <https://gist.github.com/fperez/e2bbc0a208e82e450f69>`__
script which "Merge[s]/concatenate[s] multiple IPython notebooks into
one." I use it a lot. Evidently, `other people do,
too <https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=nbmerge.py&type=Code>`__.
In early 2016, he opened an `issue to add the script as an nbconvert
tool <https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/issues/253>`__, but nothing
came of it. However, he and `@Carreau <https://github.com/carreau>`__ came up
with good (i.e. unsurprising) `semantics for metadata merging and
notebook
naming <https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/issues/253#issuecomment-187492911>`__:

.. code:: python

    metadata = {}
    for n in reversed(notebooks):
        metadata.update(n.metadata)


I don't think it's possible to implement the merger as a preprocessor.
Preprocessors are stateless, so you can't implement a reduce operation.
Instead, I wrote (er, packaged up) this library as an
`nbstripoutput <https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout>`__-like package . 
It fits in a ``Makefile`` script just fine. 

Right now, only the basic (originally fperez's) functionality is 
implemented. However, I'm going to follow 
`kynan's <https://github.com/kynan>`__ lead and slowly pull in functionality
similar to his ``nbstripout`` package.