# jupyterhub/jupyterhub

Multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks

Repository: https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jupyterhub
Homepage: https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: jupyter-notebook, jupyterhub, python, multi-user, ipython
Last push: 2026-08-24T21:48:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4465, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8332, forks 2110 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:20.346392+00:00)

## What it is
JupyterHub is a multi-user server that spawns, manages, and proxies individual Jupyter notebook server instances for many users. It consists of a tornado-based Hub, a configurable HTTP proxy, and pluggable spawners and authenticators, with a REST API for administration.

## Use cases
- host Jupyter notebooks for a class of students
- run a shared notebook server for a corporate data science team
- give each researcher their own isolated Jupyter environment
- deploy multi-user Jupyter on Kubernetes
- authenticate users with SSO and spawn notebooks on demand
- administer notebook users and servers via a REST API

## When to choose
- you need to serve Jupyter notebooks to multiple users with per-user isolation
- you want pluggable authentication (OAuth, LDAP, PAM) and spawners (Docker, Kubernetes, batch systems)
- you are deploying for education, research groups, or data science teams

## When to avoid
- you only need a single-user notebook or JupyterLab instance
- you want a lightweight setup without running a hub and proxy
- you need non-notebook web application hosting

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: http-server, auth, web-framework, deployment, self-hosted
- domain: data-science, education, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: jupyter, notebook, multi-user, spawner, proxy, interactive-computing, linux, web-server, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- jupyterhub/jupyterhub (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:20.346392+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:27:44.239948+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:20.346392+00:00, sha 500459f7b273)
  - homepage: https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:27:36.855601+00:00, sha 5e9865880aab)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/jupyterhub/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:27:36.864629+00:00, sha 2d60730b76cf)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.