template for starting and connecting to a jupyter notebook on a remote server

start_jnb.sh

#!/bin/bash  

# Start jupyter notebook on the remote server: 
ssh -n -f <USERNAME>@<SERVER> "sh -c 'nohup jupyter notebook --port=8888 > /dev/null 2>&1 &'"  

# Find the URL with port number and token: 
url=$(ssh -l <USERNAME> <SERVER> 'grep -E -oh 'http:\/\/localhost:[0-9]{4}\/tree.token=[a-z0-9]{48}' '/run/user/<userid>/jupyter/nbserver-*-open.html' | head -1')  

# Get the port number from the URL: 
port=$(echo $url | grep -E -o 'localhost:[0-9]{4}' | cut -d: -f2)  

# Start connection with jupyter notebook server: 
ssh -f -L $port:localhost:$port -N <USERNAME>@<SERVER>

# Open the page URL and apply the token to log in: 
start $url

Replace <USERNAME>, <SERVER> and <userid>.

The userid and path to the nbserver-*-open.html file may be different on your machine, so that path may need to be changed too.