Jupyter Notebooks Terminals API

Terminal sessions.

Operations 4

GET /terminals List active terminals #
POST /terminals Start a new terminal #
GET /terminals/{terminal_id} Get a terminal #
DELETE /terminals/{terminal_id} Stop a terminal #

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OpenAPI Specification

jupyter-notebooks-terminals-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Jupyter Notebook Server REST Contents Terminals API
  description: REST API for the Jupyter Notebook server, providing access to notebook contents, kernels, kernel specs, sessions, and terminals. Used by clients to drive interactive computing workflows.
  version: '7.0'
  contact:
    name: Project Jupyter
    url: https://jupyter.org
  license:
    name: BSD-3-Clause
    url: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: http://localhost:8888/api
  description: Local Jupyter Notebook server
tags:
- name: Terminals
  description: Terminal sessions.
paths:
  /terminals:
    get:
      tags:
      - Terminals
      summary: List active terminals
      operationId: listTerminals
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of active terminals.
    post:
      tags:
      - Terminals
      summary: Start a new terminal
      operationId: startTerminal
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Terminal started.
  /terminals/{terminal_id}:
    parameters:
    - in: path
      name: terminal_id
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - Terminals
      summary: Get a terminal
      operationId: getTerminal
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Terminal details.
    delete:
      tags:
      - Terminals
      summary: Stop a terminal
      operationId: stopTerminal
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Terminal stopped.
components:
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: Jupyter-Token