This page covers how to create a Jupyter Book with your own content. You've got three primary ways to create your Jupyter Book.

by starting with a minimal book

Running the following command will create a new Jupyter Book with a few content pages and a Table of Contents to get you started:

jupyter-book create mybookname

This will create a new book using your content in mybookname/. You'll then need to

1. Add your content to mybookname/content/
2. Modify mybookname/_data/toc.yml to match your content
3. Modify mybookname/_config.yml to the configuration you'd like

Note that if you choose to create the book template and later add content to it, you can quickly generate a basic Table of Contents by running the following command:

jupyter-book toc mybookname/

by modifying the Demo Book

If you'd like to see a more fully-functioning demo book for inspiration, you can create the book that lives at the jupyter-book website by adding the --demo flag:

jupyter-book create mybookname --demo

See the previous section for a description of all of the relevant files you should modify for your book.

by using a pre-existing book configuration

If you've used Jupyter Book before, you can quickly generate a new book using a pre-existing set of folders and files. These are all available as arguments in the command line interface.

For example, if you have your book's content in a folder structure like this:

myoldbook/
├── content
│   ├── root_test.md
│   └── tests
├── _data
│   └── toc.yml
├── images
│   └── tests
├── mylicense.md
├── myextrafolder
│   └── myextrafile.txt
└── config.yml

You can generate a Jupyter Book from it with the following command:

jupyter-book create mybookname --content-folder myoldbook/content \
                               --toc myoldbook/_data/toc.yml \
                               --config myoldbook/_config.yml \
                               --license myoldbook/mylicense.md \
                               --extra-files myoldbook/myextrafolder

This will create a new Jupyter Book using these files. In this case, you need to ensure that the values in _config.yml are correct, and that the Table of Contents (toc.yml) file has the structure that you want.

Next step: convert your book content into HTML

Now that you've got a Jupyter Book folder structure, we can create the HTML for each of your book's pages. That's covered in the next section.