Download data from a jupyter server

Question

I\'m using ipython notebook by connecting to a server I don\'t know how to download a thing (data frame, .csv file,... for example) programatically to my local computer. Because

Answer 1

Based on another answer, the following function will export a pandas data frame to a csv file and it will provide you with a link to download the csv file in your browser:

def csv_download_link(df, csv_file_name, delete_prompt=True):
    """Display a download link to load a data frame as csv from within a Jupyter notebook"""
    df.to_csv(csv_file_name, index=False)
    from IPython.display import FileLink
    display(FileLink(csv_file_name))
    if delete_prompt:
        a = input('Press enter to delete the file after you have downloaded it.')
        import os
        os.remove(csv_file_name)

To get a link to a csv file, enter the above function and the code below in a jupyter notebook cell :

csv_download_link(df, 'df.csv')

By default the argument delete_prompt=True makes sure that once you have downloaded the csv file, it gets deleted so the file doesn't pollute the git repository where you naturally archive your notebooks.