So is it possible to deploy API on Colab?

[ZayrexDev]

Because I don't have a good GPU to run stable diffusion on my laptop, I use Colab instead. The problem is, everything works fine except the api, which is the most important part for me. I added --api argument and it still didn't work. I tried to install python 3.10 with this, but still in vain.

These are my command line arguments:
--api --share --gradio-debug --medvram --hide-ui-dir-config --disable-console-progressbars --enable-console-prompts

So is it possible to deploy the API on Colab?

[MirrorCY]

try to using !python webui.py --api --share to start your webui

[Kilvoctu]

It is possible. As stated, you only need --api --share (and suggested --gradio-auth username:password)

Wait for your Colab to fully launch, and in the console log it will give the gradio address. Something like
Running on public URL: https://[random stuff].gradio.app
That's the address you need to connect to for the API.

I tested this earlier using Camenduru's simple easy to use Colabs, and I was able to connect to Web UI on the Google Colab from my frontend locally on my PC. I then tested sending a payload to the API, and got a response successfully.

[ZayrexDev]

Thanks, it works! It turned out to be I were using the incorrect notebook😅

[iminahiljaved]

So can you guide me , i actually want to develop an image generator (text2img) app, but for that obviously i need an API, I dont know how to do that?

[iminahiljaved]

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NsN_9M-DEWhYa8FXyCBY5WdrHz8FMDX4#scrollTo=SaAJk33ppFw1 also this notebook requires access , if you can please allow

[ZayrexDev]

Sorry about that, this is all the code in that notebook.

!pip install -qq https://github.com/camenduru/stable-diffusion-webui-colab/releases/download/0.0.14/xformers-0.0.14.dev0-cp37-cp37m-linux_x86_64.whl

!git clone https://github.com/camenduru/stable-diffusion-webui
%cd stable-diffusion-webui

!sed -i -e 's/numpy==1.23.3/numpy==1.21.6/g' requirements_versions.txt
!sed -i -e 's/fairscale==0.4.9/fairscale==0.4.6/g' requirements_versions.txt

!mkdir -p /content/stable-diffusion-webui/models/Stable-diffusion /content/stable-diffusion-webui/models/hypernetworks
%cd /content/stable-diffusion-webui/models/Stable-diffusion/

!curl -Lo model.ckpt https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafybeicpamreyp2bsocyk3hpxr7ixb2g2rnrequub3j2ahrkdxbvfbvjc4/model.ckpt

!curl -Lo model.vae.pt https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafybeiccldswdd3wvg57jhclcq53lvsc6gizasiblwayvhlv6eq4wow7wu/animevae.pt

!curl -L https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafybeiduanx2b3mcvxlwr66igcwnpfmk3nc3qgxlpwh6oq6m6pxii3f77e/_modules.tar | tar x -C /content/stable-diffusion-webui/models/hypernetworks

!curl -Ls https://github.com/ekzhang/bore/releases/download/v0.4.0/bore-v0.4.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | tar zx -C /usr/bin

%cd /content/stable-diffusion-webui/
!rm ./localizations/*
!git clone https://github.com/VinsonLaro/stable-diffusion-webui-chinese localizations

!git clone "https://github.com/DominikDoom/a1111-sd-webui-tagcomplete.git" extensions/tag-autocomplete

%cd /content/stable-diffusion-webui/
!python launch.py --api --share --deepdanbooru --force-enable-xformers --hide-ui-dir-config --disable-console-progressbars --enable-console-prompts & bore local 7860

[weisiwu]

it seems not allowed now, if i update to plus , could solve it?

[ZayrexDev]

The files used and the ways to deploy in the code I mentioned may be outdated, so I suggest using the method mentioned here, which should be the right way to deploy. You can also check this repo, which provides many notebooks that might be avaliable. And could you specify which step does it go wrong?