restapi

This directory contains example scripts for starting the restapi and interacting with it through a client.

Steps

1. Install atomspace and cogutil.

2. Install flask and flask-restful. On Ubuntu, this is sudo apt install python3-flask python3-flask-restful python3-flask-cors

3. Run the following, replace /path/to/opencog/clone with your actual git clone path.

   export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages"
   

4. Start the restapi. There are two options use either one.

   • run python start_restapi.py
   • run guile -l start-restapi.scm

5. In a separate terminal run python exampleclient.py for interacting with the atomspace.