Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: nb_cron
Version: 0.4.4
Summary: Manage your crontab from the Jupyter Notebook
Home-page: https://github.com/alexanghh/nb_cron
Author: alexanghh
Author-email: alexanghh@gmail.com
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE

# nb_cron

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Provides crontab access from within Jupyter.

## Cron tab in the Jupyter file browser

This extension adds a *Cron* tab to the Jupyter file browser and a *Cron* menu item in notebook view. Features include:

* View the list of the cron job(s) that currently exist.
  * Edit existing cron job(s)
  * Delete existing cron job(s)
* Add new cron job
* Helper to build papermill command
  * Allows setting of notebook's environment, kernel and parameters
  * Able to inspect notebook (relative or full path) to extract environment, kernel and parameters to build papermill command and options
  * Able to set commands to run before and/or after papermill using jupyter_nbextensions_configurator 

## Installation
After installing the package using conda or pip, you can add nb_cron to jupyter as follows:
```
jupyter nbextension install nb_cron --py --sys-prefix --symlink
jupyter nbextension enable nb_cron --py --sys-prefix
jupyter serverextension enable nb_cron --py --sys-prefix
```

### Cron tab in tree view

To create a new cron job:
* Use the *Create New Cron Job* button at the top of the page, and fill in the bash command and cron schedule.
* Use the *Notebook Command Builder* to build a bash command for running a notebook using papermill. 

To edit an existing cron job:
* Click the *Edit* button on the left of a cron job listing and fill in the bash command and cron schedule.

To delete an existing cron job:
* Click the *Trash* button on the left of a cron job listing to delete the cron job.

### Cron menu item in notebook view
To manage cron jobs
* Click *View cron jobs* (refer to cron tab in tree view)

To schedule new cron job for current notebook
* Click *Schedule notebook job*.
* Opens up the *Create new job* and *Notebook command builder* dialog. 
* Auto inspect notebook and fill up the *Notebook command builder* dialog.

To edit existing cron job that uses current notebook
* Click *Edit notebook job*.
* Only available if there is an existing cron job contains the current notebook in the cron command.
* Only able to edit the first job. Please use *View cron jobs* to edit if there are multiple jobs for the notebook.

To set parameters tag for papermill
* Click notebook cell that you want to parameterize (cell that contains all the parameters for running papermill)
* Click *Cron* > *Set papermill parameters cell* in menu bar. 
