Expose Gradio Functions as API

[DrakenZA]

btn.click(add, [num1, num2], output, api_name="addition")

By adding api_name='xyz' to a button in the UI, it will automatically make an API endpoint, and document it into a page you can reach by pressing 'view api' at the bottom of the UI.

Will allow for third party tools to be created that function of this god tier code, in a very manageable way.

[ReiFan49]

I agree with this.

I've been testing this on my friend's server that at least exposes api_name for txt2img and img2img's Generate button. It's a working solution for (us) geeks who wanted to make a bot or scripts out of it.

Probably need a list of functionality that requires api_nameing out of it.

(Also, while on it, please reply my comment about hiding show_api by default. Because it's partially annoying to see these without any consent.)

[Kilvoctu]

I'd love for this to happen.

I like using the web ui, but there are use case when I want to access it through a bot. As someone with virtually no Python experience as of a few weeks ago, it's been very difficult for me to get my app to interface with the web ui (I've even have a help question elsewhere). I've been relying to fork projects of smarter people who have solutions.

[B2Gdevs]

how are yall deploying the everything? I wanna build a service using the API but am thinking I will need to load models on other servers and run the api on an ec2 instance.

[Kilvoctu]

I don't have anything particularly elaborate. For me, I have my Web UI (API) and service (Discord bot) running on the same machine.

[Xerxemi]

I'd like to see this happen as well, as gradio has no way of interacting updating frontend from backend without crazyness.