I create public Jupyter notebooks once in a while, to collaborate with a friend, or to make it easier for myself to work with data on a remote machine.

Each time I need to look up the docs, and manually set-up a few things, before I can start using the notebook.

I just wrote a bash script that does the following, quickly -

• Install Jupyter into a temporary virtualenv
• Create certificate files
• Start the server with https enabled and a password
• Delete all temporary files, when the server is shutdown

You can get it here, if you’d like to use it.