How do I embed a gif in Jupyter notebook?

In some cases, you need to embed the gif file in Jupyter notebook, that is, the gif works in Jupyter notebook even if the gif file on your disk has been deleted. @user13013261's solution would fail, and @Const's only works in a Markdown cell.

You can try these:

display(Image(data=open(gif_path,'rb').read(), format='png'))

or

import base64
b64 = base64.b64encode(open(gif_path,'rb').read()).decode('ascii')
display(HTML(f'<img src="data:image/gif;base64,{b64}" />'))

Reference:
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/10045#issuecomment-318202267 https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/10045#issuecomment-642640541

I've been trying to display a gif in Jupyter notebook and have had some trouble.

To display gif in notebook you can use inline markup on a Markdown cell like this:

• Relative reference in the same folder as ipynb notebook file:

  ![SegmentLocal](191px-Seven_segment_display-animated.gif "segment")
  

• Relative reference in subfolder images from folder where ipynb notebook file is:

  ![SegmentLocal](images/191px-Seven_segment_display-animated.gif "segment")
  

• Absolute reference from root folder irrespective of location of notebook file:

  ![SegmentLocal](/Users/username/some-folder/191px-Seven_segment_display-animated.gif "segment")
  

• URL reference (should work out of the box in your notebook):

  ![ChessUrl](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/ChessPawnSpecialMoves.gif "chess")
  

As an example, since stack overflow is also using markdown, last line with url reference if given exactly last mentioned line: ![ChessUrl](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/ChessPawnSpecialMoves.gif "chess"), but not given as code reference evaluates to:

As should be displayed in your jupyter notebook as well. Now, if you can see this last one ok, but can't see it from referenced local file you are most probably either having corrupted gif, permission issues or not proper file path.

When I need to include a gif animation in a jupyter notebook I do the following:

<img src="FileName.gif" width="750" align="center">

The width and align parameters are defined by you.

Thanks