If you manage the notebook server, I think you can define the token when you start the server and open a notebook directly by passing in the token:
jupyter notebook --NotebookApp.tokenUnicode ="mytoken"
If you set it to ‘’ then authentication is disabled.
(NB the current docs seem to specify NotebookApp.tokenUnicode but I’m sure I’ve always used NotebookApp.token in the past. I don’t know if there is a change note about this somewhere, or whether NotebookApp.token now breaks. If so, I may have some nightmare maintenance to do…!)
You can then launch with:
open "http://localhost:8888?token=mytoken".
If you are using docker to run notebooks via the official Jupyter containers, you can pass in a token when you run the container:
docker run --rm -d --name democontainer -p 9999:8888 -e JUPYTER_TOKEN="mytoken" jupyter/base-notebook
Or define an environment variable:
export JUPYTER_TOKEN='mytoken'
and then run:
docker run --rm -d --name democontainer -p 9999:8888 -e JUPYTER_TOKEN jupyter/base-notebook
and open with:
open "http://localhost:9999?token=${JUPYTER_TOKEN}"
Alternatively, you can set c.NotebookApp.tokenUnicode in the ~/.jupyterjupyter_notebook_config.py file as required (see the docs.