Jupyter Notebooks · Schema
Jupyter Notebook (nbformat 4)
Schema for a Jupyter notebook document (.ipynb) at nbformat major version 4.
Data ScienceInteractive ComputingJupyterNotebooksPython
Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| nbformat | integer | |
| nbformat_minor | integer | |
| metadata | object | |
| cells | array |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jupyter-notebooks/main/json-schema/jupyter-notebook-format-schema.json",
"title": "Jupyter Notebook (nbformat 4)",
"description": "Schema for a Jupyter notebook document (.ipynb) at nbformat major version 4.",
"type": "object",
"required": ["nbformat", "nbformat_minor", "metadata", "cells"],
"properties": {
"nbformat": { "type": "integer", "const": 4 },
"nbformat_minor": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 },
"metadata": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"kernelspec": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": { "type": "string" },
"display_name": { "type": "string" },
"language": { "type": "string" }
}
},
"language_info": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": { "type": "string" },
"version": { "type": "string" },
"mimetype": { "type": "string" },
"file_extension": { "type": "string" }
}
},
"title": { "type": "string" },
"authors": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": { "name": { "type": "string" } }
}
}
}
},
"cells": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "object",
"required": ["cell_type", "source"],
"properties": {
"cell_type": { "const": "markdown" },
"metadata": { "type": "object" },
"source": { "type": ["string", "array"] },
"attachments": { "type": "object" }
}
},
{
"type": "object",
"required": ["cell_type", "source"],
"properties": {
"cell_type": { "const": "raw" },
"metadata": { "type": "object" },
"source": { "type": ["string", "array"] }
}
},
{
"type": "object",
"required": ["cell_type", "source", "outputs", "execution_count"],
"properties": {
"cell_type": { "const": "code" },
"metadata": { "type": "object" },
"source": { "type": ["string", "array"] },
"execution_count": { "type": ["integer", "null"] },
"outputs": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": ["output_type"],
"properties": {
"output_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["stream", "display_data", "execute_result", "error"]
}
}
}
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
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