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Rich Signell
Rich Signell

Reputation: 16365

Sending data from a web app to an ipython notebook

We have a web app that allows users to interactively discover web service data URLs. We would like to allow a discovered service URL to be sent to an Ipython Notebook, where data from the service could be extracted, analyzed and visualized in the notebook. Is that possible?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1854

Answers (1)

epifanio
epifanio

Reputation: 1357

This topic : Connecting to a remote IPython instance

will show you how to execute python code from an app/script and return any "python objects" back to the notebook kernel.

Essentially what i will do in this case is to execute python code from the web app using the approach described before, note that for recent version of IPython (i use 3.0-dev) you should change :

from IPython.zmq.blockingkernelmanager import BlockingKernelManager

to :

from IPython.kernel import BlockingKernelClient

If your web-app can receive parameters in the url, you can construct the url+query from the notebook giving the connection info as one of the input parameters. You can retrieve the connection ifo within the notebook using:

%connect_info

Upvotes: 3

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