Using the webserver without the webui

[onidev]

Hello,
is there any documentation on the protocol/messages to communicate with the server without using the webui?
Or should I go directly to look the code of the webui?
I have not found any documentation.

Thank you.

[JPhilipp]

I'd be interested too. I'm using an HTTP API connecting to Replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion from Unity C# but it would be nice to be able to swap it out with a local server when wanted.

[hd-x]

I see recent commits have been made that enable API access with or without GUI. I think it is not finished yet but going in the right direction.
check this 5daf9cb
--api to enable API
--nowebui to enable API and disable webui.
very interesting!!

[onidev]

Seems pretty cool!

In the meantime I found a simple workaround.
In your web browser, open the web development tools and check the POST data associated to each action you do.
The server and the client uses Json messages to communicate.

You can try to communicate with the server and send a simple string like this one:
{"fn_index":192,"data":[],"session_hash":"somehash11"}

If it works correctly, it will answer with a Json string and give you the "Eta noise seed delta" setting value.
When you start the webclient, it read all settings parameters one by one using similar Json messages.

If you want to generate an image, you have to send a big Json message, containing a lot of parameters.
Then you have to send regularly another message to get the progress bar and to check if the generation was completed.

[Hugo-Matias]

Still early days but this looks very useful. Gradio is a pain if you want to do anything mildly dynamic.