export notebook to pdf without code

You can add this css to your page and then print into PDF from the browser. Note that the code is only hidden, not removed.

div.output_prompt { visibility: hidden; }
*{ font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif !important }
.input,#header { display: none; }

To make sure you remove the code you should use something like

$(".input").remove()

As far as I know there is no way to generate via latex a PDF that does not include the code. It would be great to have a jupyter notebook extension that does it though…

nbconvert uses templates to convert the notebook’s JSON into a document; for example, in the markdown template that comes with nbconvert, markdown.tpl:

{% block input %}
{% if nb.metadata.language_info %}{{ nb.metadata.language_info.name }}{% endif %}
{{ cell.source}}
{% endblock input %}

which prints each cell’s source in the output. If you delete {{ cell.source}} then the cell source will not print out. There are corresponding blocks in the HTML and Latex templates as well.

Better yet, make your own template that does exactly what you want 🙂

As a generalization of this answer, so that hidecode template could be accessible from multiple locations:

1. Go into your home directory:

   cd ~/.jupyter
   

2. Create jupyter_nbconvert_config.py under this directory.

3. Write the following into the .py file (Change user_name to your user name):

   c = get_config()
   c.TemplateExporter.template_path = ['.', "~/.jupyter" ]
   c.LatexExporter.template_path = ['.', "~/.jupyter"]
   

4. Create a template file under this directory, named hidecode.tplx or hidecode.tpl:

       ((*- extends 'article.tplx' -*))
   
   ((* block input_group *))
       ((*- if cell.metadata.get('nbconvert', {}).get('show_code', False) -*))
               ((( super() )))
       ((*- endif -*))
   ((* endblock input_group *))
   

5. Then, the following should generate a PDF without .ipynb files’ codes (Change file_name to your file name):

   jupyter nbconvert --to pdf '<file_name>.ipynb' --template=hidecode.tpl
   

Here is how I do it:
I simply download my notebook as html.

Then run this python script to convert that html file so that prompts and code cells are gone:

FILE = "/somewhere/myHTMLFile.html"

with open(FILE, 'r') as html_file:
    content = html_file.read()

# Get rid off prompts and source code
content = content.replace("div.input_area {","div.input_area {ntdisplay: none;")    
content = content.replace(".prompt {",".prompt {ntdisplay: none;")

f = open(FILE, 'w')
f.write(content)
f.close()

That script bascially adds the CSS ‘display: none’ attribute for all divs of class ‘prompt’ or ‘input_area’.

I was seeking the same question in SO and finally turned out to a very straightforward way:

Assuming using Firefox(57) + Win7

1. Run Jupyter notebook and download the notebook in the browser: File->Download as->HTML and you will get a html page with code and output.
2. Open the exported HTML with browser and activate the browser console with key F12

3. Run following command in the console:

   document.querySelectorAll("div.input").forEach(function(a){a.remove()})
   

4. The code removes all input div DOM. Then right mouse button and chose “Save Page As” and Save the “Complete page” (not single page).

5. You will get a page with an associated folder in windows. Use a trick by zip the html page and then extract to unbind the associated. The folder is useless.

6. Now it is a single html page without code. You can re-distribute it or print it as PDF.

If you are not using Firefox or Windows, please adjust the above 3-6 steps.