QL-Win / QL-Win/QuickLook

[feature request] Jupyter notebooks support

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Description

Brief introduction: Jupyter Notebooks provides an interactive browser-based environment for programming (in origin with Python but now with many other languages) but at the end of the day they are plain JSON files with the extension .ipynb .

They're notoriously hard to consult without running a proper Python app or converting to another format. I've recently found some projects which allow to avoid all the overhead. One of these is a Quick Look plugin for MacOS: ipynb quicklook.

I know nothing about development of plugins for QuickLook for Windows, but if converting from a MacOS plugin is easier than writing the plugin from scratch, it would be a much appreciated feature.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing QuickLook architecture and the linked ipynb-quicklook project, then compare their approaches with the Jupyter notebook JSON format described in the issue. Done means that Windows QuickLook can meaningfully preview .ipynb files without requiring a full Python application.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp, jupyter-notebook
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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