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Dev tools · January 20, 2022

Mercury – Publish Jupyter Notebook as web app by adding YAML header

Mercury is a perfect tool to share your Python notebooks with non-programmers. - You can turn your notebook into web app. - You can add interactive widgets to your notebook by defining the YAML header. Your users can change the input and execute the notebook. - You can hide your code to not scare your (non-coding) collaborators. - Users can interact with notebook and save they results. - You can share notebook as a web app with multiple users - they don't overwrite original notebook. The demo running at Heroku (free dyno) http://mercury-demo-1.herokuapp.com, at AWS EC2 (t3a.small)…

Mercury – Publish Jupyter Notebook as web app by adding YAML header launched on January 20, 2022 with 61 votes, #867 of 2,891 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

In plain words

Mercury transforms Jupyter Notebooks into web applications by adding a YAML header with interactive widgets. Users can modify inputs and execute notebooks without seeing the underlying code, making it suitable for sharing analyses with non-programmers. Multiple users can interact with the same notebook simultaneously without affecting the original file. Code can be hidden to prevent confusion among non-technical collaborators, and users can save their results.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Impress your boss and turn a Jupyter notebook into a beautiful, shareable web app — no callbacks, no frontend, no rewrite. - mljar/mercury

In the maker’s words, at launch

Mercury is a perfect tool to share your Python notebooks with non-programmers. - You can turn your notebook into web app. - You can add interactive widgets to your notebook by defining the YAML header. Your users can change the input and execute the notebook. - You can hide your code to not scare your (non-coding)…

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