Saves Jupyter Notebooks as .py and .html files automatically. Add to the ipython_notebook_config.py file of your associated profile.

post-save-hook.py

import os
from subprocess import check_call

def post_save(model, os_path, contents_manager):
    """post-save hook for converting notebooks to .py and .html files."""
    if model['type'] != 'notebook':
        return # only do this for notebooks
    d, fname = os.path.split(os_path)
    check_call(['jupyter', 'nbconvert', '--to', 'script', fname], cwd=d)
    check_call(['jupyter', 'nbconvert', '--to', 'html', fname], cwd=d)

c.FileContentsManager.post_save_hook = post_save

This works great! Thank you. I got depreciate warning on jupyter version 4.2.0 so I changed from 'ipython' to 'jupyter' as follows.

check_call(['jupyter', 'nbconvert', '--to', 'script', fname], cwd=d)
check_call(['jupyter', 'nbconvert', '--to', 'html', fname], cwd=d)

What exactly that 'c' refers to, in line : c.FileContentsManager.post_save_hook = post_save

Great addition. Thanks for sharing this... the video is a couple of years old, so is there an update?

FYI - For AnaConda users, I show this ipython_notebook_config.py config file in two paths:

1. ..\Anaconda3\envs<env>\Lib\site-packages\jupyter_core\tests\dotipython\profile_default
   It contains just:
   c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False

2. ..\Anaconda3\envs<env>\Lib\site-packages\jupyter_core\tests\dotipython_empty\profile_default
   This file contains pages of commented options - and ...

Python callable or importstring thereof

To be called on a contents model prior to save.

This can be used to process the structure, such as removing notebook outputs

or other side effects that should not be saved.

It will be called as (all arguments passed by keyword)::

hook(path=path, model=model, contents_manager=self)

Or ...

to be called on the path of a file just saved.

This can be used to process the file on disk, such as converting the notebook

to a script or HTML via nbconvert.

It will be called as (all arguments passed by keyword)::

hook(os_path=os_path, model=model, contents_manager=instance)

- path: the filesystem path to the file just written - model: the model

representing the file - contents_manager: this ContentsManager instance

c.FileContentsManager.post_save_hook = None

DEPRECATED, use post_save_hook

c.FileContentsManager.save_script = False

Any advice here? It looks like your script belongs here in the second config file.

So it looks like this stackoverflow answer has the right way to go about this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29329667/ipython-notebook-script-deprecated-how-to-replace-with-post-save-hook

jupyter notebook --generate-config

and it will output the file name:

Writing default config to: /Users/user/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py

And that's the location that you'd like to edit. I've also tweaked the call to use jupyter instead of ipython.