Google Co-laboratory notebook PDF download

Question

Google Co-laboratory notebook doesn't have the "Download as" dropdown menu item in "File" menu like standalone Jupyter does. How to download the notebook as PDF?

Russel

using ctrl+p in the browser, go to options and click "Background graphics". The saved pdf will be of much higher quality and will have better formatting. – Czarist

Beware, on firefox, parts of the page are cropped (top and bottom). – Supplement

Answer 1

You can also run the solution of mayurmadnani directly on Colab.
Therefore create a new Python workbook in Colab and connect it to a runtime.
Install the necessary packages into the virtual machine with:

!apt-get install texlive texlive-xetex texlive-latex-extra pandoc
!pip install pypandoc

Mount your google drive to get access to your ipynb files

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

I had to copy the files from the drive to the working directory,
because the drive is/was mounted as read only.

!cp drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/Untitled.ipynb ./

Then you can run the converter.

!jupyter nbconvert --to PDF "Untitled.ipynb"

Then you can download the file in the left side panel.

Smaltite

Cool, that works. Although a little overkill for the job, it gives much insight into how to work with colab and drive. Thanks. – Russel

Having trouble with install texlive-xetex on Google Colab. Getting an error - Err:1 security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libgs9-common all 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.10 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.174 80]...and similar lines to this effect. Worked seamlessly on my local machine though. – Lotion

Just a little fix. Intead !cp drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/Untitled.ipynb ./ use !cp "./drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/Untitled.ipynb" ./ because the blank spaces – Fioritura

or !cp /content/drive/My\ Drive/Colab\ Notebooks/yourfile.ipynb ./ – Alva

the problem with this method is it wont store the output It'd just store the code cells – Faraday

I feel a bit sorry for the machine tho. These packages are so heavy – Stony

Answer 2

Use the built-in browser print. Then, save the result as a pdf.

Whicker

interesting solution, but no Table of Contents – Parkway

It works for most notebooks, but not works well for those notebooks with embed javascript content. – Puparium

Answer 3

@user10914779's answer worked for me. But if you are looking for a shorter and readable code then you can take a look at this Github repo: colab-pdf.

You can paste the following code in the last cell of your colab notebook and run it. It will generate a PDF file and save it to your drive.

!wget -nc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brpy/colab-pdf/master/colab_pdf.py
from colab_pdf import colab_pdf
colab_pdf('name-of-the-notebook.ipynb')

You can provide the name of the notebook to colab_pdf('name-of-the-notebook.ipynb'). If you are not interested in the output that this codeblock produces then you can hide it using '%%capture'

%%capture
!wget -nc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brpy/colab-pdf/master/colab_pdf.py
from colab_pdf import colab_pdf

Spermatozoon

Fantastic @Osmani. Upvoted! – Lovegrass

@DeepakTatyajiAhire, thanks! Glad to help :) – Spermatozoon

Hello, where does it exactly save? – Lacrimatory

From the documentation of the library, "This requires that you have already mounted your google drive in your notebook. If not, this will attempt to Mount your drive, which may ask for your authentication." – Spermatozoon

Answer 4

Try any one:

1. You have an option File > Download .ipynb. Use below command to convert ipynb to pdf or any other format

jupyter nbconvert --to FORMAT notebook.ipynb

See usage guide: https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html

2. As mentoned by Bob, use print option to save as pdf. Here, you may lose text if it goes out of the page

Psychosis

That makes sense only if one already have a local jupyter installed. I tried it on my machine and got "nbconvert.utils.pandoc.PandocMissing: Pandoc wasn't found." error. I think if I would just open the notebook on my machine and use "Download as" to save to pdf. Thanks. – Russel

Answer 5

1. Download .ipynb file
2. Download as html
3. Print PDF from browser

Carpetbag

Answer 6

check here for video: https://youtu.be/n2Cd9NCZtZk

  %cd go_to_your_path

#run these.

!sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-recommended

!jupyter nbconvert --to pdf fileName.ipynb

Lexeme

Answer 7

so to browser print option and select cancel option in that you will get save as pdf.

Scirrhous

Answer 8

1. download the .ipynb file from colab from file->download .ipynb
2. Then upload it to your jupyter notebook and download it in pdf format as you used to in stand-alone jupyter.

Since .ipynb files take a few MBs of data at maximum.

Leprosy

Answer 9

If (You are using jupyter the easier way I found was to)

• Download the file in latex.
• Upload it to overleaf.
• And then download it as a pdf

Else if ( You are using google collab)

• Download as ipynb
• Upload to jupyter and repeat the above steps.

Presbyter

Answer 10

You first download the related packages for it with the following code:

!sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-plain-generic

Then run the code below to convert the corresponding named IPYNB file to convert to the same name PDF file.

!jupyter nbconvert --to pdf /content/Text_Summarization.ipynb

A Note: If you have any blanks on the file name, you should add a backslash to the code just like below:

!jupyter nbconvert --to pdf /content/Text\ Preprocessing\ and\ BoW.ipynb

Krahmer

Answer 11

For macOS users, I found exporting to PDF with nbconvert following these steps worked well. Run the below commands in your terminal. If using Anaconda, ensure to run them in the base environment.

1. pip install nbconvert[webpdf]
2. jupyter nbconvert --to webpdf --allow-chromium-download path/name_to_notebook_file.ipynb PS: The --allow-chromium-download flag should be added once to install Chromium.

If you want to exclude code in the PDF export, run jupyter nbconvert --to webpdf --no-input path/name_to_notebook-file.ipynb

Ref: https://mljar.com/blog/jupyter-notebook-pdf/

Obumbrate

Answer 12

For me the easiest way in collab:

***ctrl+P*** (Print) and there, instead of printing the page, just click Microsoft Print to PDF. You will have your notebook in PDF in your downloads.

Kierakieran

Answer 13

Method 1: Exporting to HTML then to PDF format !jupyter nbconvert --to html /content/KNN.ipynb

Method 2: Exporting directly to PDF format !sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-plain-generic !jupyter nbconvert --to pdf /content/KNN.ipynb

Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ti9Mm21uVc&t=309s&ab_channel=AdrianDolinay

Furfuraceous

Answer 14

If you want to preserve how it looks on colab, and if you don't mind things getting flattened, you could use the chrome extension -- GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gofullpage-full-page-scre/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl?pli=1

Custody

Answer 15

If you are using colab -

1. go to file then click on print,
2. there will be a "destination" tab,
3. choose the "save as pdf" option over there

Algo

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