In [2]:

import os
from subprocess import Popen

env = os.environ.copy()
env['JUPYTER_TOKEN'] = 'secret'
p = Popen(['jupyter', 'notebook', '--port=9999'], env=env)

In [3]:

import requests
s = requests.Session()
s.headers['Authorization'] = 'token secret'

In [5]:

s.get('http://127.0.0.1:9999/api/contents/empty').json()

Out[5]:

{'content': [{'content': None,
   'created': '2017-06-20T16:03:32Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2017-06-20T16:03:32Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'broken',
   'path': 'empty/broken',
   'type': 'file',
   'writable': False},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2018-01-04T17:17:02.838623Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2018-01-03T10:47:34Z',
   'mimetype': 'text/plain',
   'name': 'newtext.txt',
   'path': 'empty/newtext.txt',
   'type': 'file',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2018-02-01T11:58:19.027866Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2018-02-01T11:58:19.027866Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'Untitled3.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/Untitled3.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2017-06-20T16:03:32Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2017-06-20T16:03:32Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'ok',
   'path': 'empty/ok',
   'type': 'directory',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2017-11-28T16:59:13.120256Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2017-11-28T13:28:53Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'inorder.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/inorder.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2018-01-24T17:02:14.486603Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2018-01-23T17:37:11Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'Untitled2.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/Untitled2.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2017-12-12T09:05:18.694326Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2017-12-07T14:55:21Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'sql.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/sql.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2018-02-07T15:18:06.556079Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2018-02-07T15:18:06.556079Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'nbtoken.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/nbtoken.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2018-01-31T21:26:35.103768Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2018-01-31T14:26:20Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'kernel-restart-problem.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/kernel-restart-problem.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2018-01-24T17:02:14.486349Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2018-01-24T13:25:21Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'polite-errors.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/polite-errors.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True},
  {'content': None,
   'created': '2018-02-02T13:36:07.737049Z',
   'format': None,
   'last_modified': '2018-02-02T13:36:07.737049Z',
   'mimetype': None,
   'name': 'test.ipynb',
   'path': 'empty/test.ipynb',
   'type': 'notebook',
   'writable': True}],
 'created': '2018-02-07T15:18:06.556523Z',
 'format': 'json',
 'last_modified': '2018-02-07T15:18:06.556523Z',
 'mimetype': None,
 'name': 'empty',
 'path': 'empty',
 'type': 'directory',
 'writable': True}

In [6]:

s.post('http://127.0.0.1:9999/api/contents/empty')

Out[6]:

201 http://127.0.0.1:9999/api/contents/empty
headers:   Access-Control-Allow-Origin: 
  Content-Length: 221
  Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self'; report-uri /api/security/csp-report; default-src 'none'
  Content-Type: application/json
  Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:18:20 GMT
  Last-Modified: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:18:20 GMT
  Location: /api/contents/empty/untitled
  Server: TornadoServer/4.5.3
  Set-Cookie: username-127-0-0-1-9999="2|1:0|10:1518016700|23:username-127-0-0-1-9999|44:ZDdmMGJlZWM1OWE2NGFjNGJjMWQ2OTgwM2M1OGNlZTk=|2f9948ce53d29e73c1aa2e2fc62736829825c160529e73c15c8710fd7d863a1a"; expires=Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:18:20 GMT; HttpOnly; Path=/

body (application/json):
{'content': None,
 'created': '2018-02-07T15:18:20.378483Z',
 'format': None,
 'last_modified': '2018-02-07T15:18:20.378483Z',
 'mimetype': None,
 'name': 'untitled',
 'path': 'empty/untitled',
 'type': 'file',
 'writable': True}