Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter Notebook Hub API

Hub lifecycle management.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 1

POST /shutdown Jupyter Notebook Shut down the hub #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rest_api.html
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Documentation
https://jupyter-kernel-gateway.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Documentation
https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/rest-api.html

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jupyter-notebook/refs/heads/main/openapi/jupyter-notebook-hub-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jupyter-notebook/refs/heads/main/json-schema/jupyter-notebook-document.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jupyter-notebook/refs/heads/main/json-schema/jupyter-contents-model.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jupyter-notebook/refs/heads/main/json-schema/jupyter-kernel-spec.json

Other Resources

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Repository
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook
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JSONLDContext
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jupyter-notebook/refs/heads/main/json-ld/jupyter-notebook-context.jsonld
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Repository
https://github.com/jupyter-server/kernel_gateway
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Repository
https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub

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OpenAPI Specification

jupyter-notebook-hub-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Jupyter Notebook Jupyter Kernel Gateway Authorization Hub API
  description: 'REST API for the Jupyter Kernel Gateway, a web server that provides headless access to Jupyter kernels. The Kernel Gateway supports two modes: jupyter-websocket mode (default) which provides a Jupyter Notebook server-compatible API for kernel management, and notebook-http mode which maps notebook cells to HTTP endpoints. This spec covers the jupyter-websocket mode API.'
  version: 3.0.0
  license:
    name: BSD-3-Clause
    url: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
  contact:
    name: Jupyter Project
    url: https://jupyter-kernel-gateway.readthedocs.io
    email: jupyter@googlegroups.com
servers:
- url: http://localhost:8888/api
  description: Local Jupyter Kernel Gateway server
security:
- token: []
- tokenQuery: []
tags:
- name: Hub
  description: Hub lifecycle management.
paths:
  /shutdown:
    post:
      operationId: shutdownHub
      summary: Jupyter Notebook Shut down the hub
      description: Shut down the JupyterHub process. Optionally stop all single-user servers and the proxy.
      tags:
      - Hub
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                servers:
                  type: boolean
                  description: Whether to stop all user servers.
                  default: false
                proxy:
                  type: boolean
                  description: Whether to stop the proxy.
                  default: false
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Shutdown initiated.
        '403':
          description: Forbidden. Admin access required.
components:
  securitySchemes:
    token:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: Authentication token configured via KG_AUTH_TOKEN. Passed as 'token <token_value>' in the Authorization header.
    tokenQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: token
      description: Authentication token passed as a query parameter.