I cant download my notebook as .ipynb anymore it saves as JSON

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Hi
I changed my computer and installed Anaconda but I cant download my notebooks as .ipynb anymore.
It only save as json.
if I try to save as .py it saves only as HTML
How can I fix it ?
Thanks

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You might just try chaning the file extension from *.json to *.ipynb.

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@yasiss Can you share your browser and OS? I am not experiencing this issue, but other people running the same notebook on the same server are and I’m trying to isolate why.
If you’ve since resolved this, how did you?

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I’ve noticed this for some time. When attempting to export a notebook as an ipynb file, the dialogue offers json format only. I can download as HTML or PDF, but not ipynb. Running Windows 10 on chrome. Same issue with Edge browser. This happens on Coursera. Could it be intentional?

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nbconvert specifies application/json as the mimetype for notebooks. I was able to solve this by adding the following to my jupyter_notebook_config.py

import nbconvert
nbconvert.NotebookExporter.output_mimetype = 'application/x-ipynb+json'

Unfortunately, the configuration interface doesn’t allow access to this property so I have to change it this way. This custom mimetype acknowledges that it’s a json payload, but that json isn’t the most appropriate file extension.

I only confirmed this on Safari on macOS, but I think it should work for most other configurations which were ignoring the attachment header.

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I ran into a similar problem with one of my own extensions a few months ago with Firefox which previously worked, so it’s clearly due to a change in browser policies. I also fixed it by setting the mime-type to application/x-ipynb+json.

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Oh my! I can’t believe.

It’s a piece of cake!

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