Jupyter Slack Notifier

Tired of constantly checking your jupyter notebook to see if your code has finished executing?
Frustrated by checking your code after waiting hours, only to see your code failed in 5 minutes?
Worry no more! This magic command will notify you via slack when your code finishes or fails!

Installation

$ pip install jupyter_slack

Usage

Import in your notebook and use like this:

You should receive messages in slack like this:

You can also use the features within your code like this:

import jupyter_slack
jupyter_slack.notify_self("hello world")

Or, if you want notifications when execution fails and/or know how long your command takes, you can use the following context manager:

import jupyter_slack
with jupyter_slack.Monitor("hello world", time=True):
    do_something()

Instructions

Slack Apps

Create an incoming webhook
Set the following environmental variable:

export SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=your_webhook_url

Legacy Tokens (Will eventually be deprecated so not recommended)

Acquire a Slack api token
Set the following variables in your .bashrc (or whatever profile you are using):