How to run zeppelin notebook from command line (automatically)

Question

1. How do we run the notebook from command line?

2. Further to 1, how would I pass command line arguments into the notebook? I.e. access the command line

Answer 1

As of version 0.7.3 and perhaps earlier, Zeppelin has a REST API that lets you run notebooks. Your shell script can use curl to access the API.

The API includes methods to delete a paragraph and to insert a paragraph at a particular index. This allows you to express all your "parameters" as variables in paragraph 0 and then use them in later paragraphs. Make 3 calls to the REST API in this order:

1. Delete the notebook's current paragraph 0.
2. Insert a new paragraph containing variable assignments at index 0.
3. Run the notebook.