A very simple read-only Jupyter Contents Manager for listing some distributed notebooks

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Run jupyter notebook in the directory.

It will list everything in $PREFIX/share/ipynb.

jupyter_notebook_config.py

import sys
import os

sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(__file__))

import jupyter_shelf

c.NotebookApp.contents_manager_class = jupyter_shelf.ShelfContentsManager

jupyter_shelf.py

import sys
import os

from tornado.web import HTTPError

from notebook.services.contents.filemanager import FileContentsManager
from notebook.utils import (
    to_os_path,
)

ROOT = os.path.join(sys.prefix, "share", "ipynb")


class ShelfContentsManager(FileContentsManager):
    def _get_os_path(self, path):
        root = os.path.abspath(ROOT)
        os_path = to_os_path(path, root)
        if not (os.path.abspath(os_path) + os.path.sep).startswith(root):
            raise HTTPError(404,
                            "%s is outside root contents directory" % path)
        return os_path

    def _save_file(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass

    def _save_directory(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass