There's already an emacs-jupyter package that provides an emacs api for interacting with the jupyter kernel through either a repl or org-mode source blocks. It

There's already an emacs-jupyter package that provides an emacs api for interacting with the jupyter kernel through either a repl or org-mode source blocks. It provides output from the jupyter kernel in latex, svg, and png among others. What your asking probably wouldn't be to difficult and will probably find its way into one of the ipython notebook specific packages if it isn't already in one of them already.