Adding an ingress URL through the ngrok Agent SDK for Python

ngrok is a globally distributed reverse proxy commonly used for quickly getting a public URL to a service running inside a private network, such as on your local laptop. The ngrok agent is usually deployed inside a private network and is used to communicate with the ngrok cloud service.

By default the authtoken in the NGROK_AUTHTOKEN environment variable will be used. Alternatively one may be specified in the settings.json file, see the Examples below. Retrieve your authtoken on the Auth Token page of your ngrok dashboard, signing up is free.

Documentation

For a list of all available options, see the configuration documentation or the connect example.

The ngrok Python SDK is on github here. A quickstart guide and a full API reference are included in the ngrok-py Python API documentation.

Running

To enable ngrok install the requirements and then add --extension ngrok to the command line options, for instance:

pip install -r extensions/ngrok/requirements.txt
python server.py --extension ngrok

In the output you should then see something like this:

INFO:Loading the extension "ngrok"...
INFO:Session created
INFO:Created tunnel "9d9d0944dc75ff9d3aae653e5eb29fe9" with url "https://d83706cf7be7.ngrok.app"
INFO:Tunnel "9d9d0944dc75ff9d3aae653e5eb29fe9" TCP forwarding to "localhost:7860"
INFO:Ingress established at https://d83706cf7be7.ngrok.app

You can now access the webui via the url shown, in this case https://d83706cf7be7.ngrok.app. It is recommended to add some authentication to the ingress, see below.

Example Settings

In settings.json add a ngrok key with a dictionary of options, for instance:

To enable basic authentication:

{
    "ngrok": {
        "basic_auth": "user:password"
    }
}

To enable OAUTH authentication:

{
    "ngrok": {
        "oauth_provider": "google",
        "oauth_allow_domains": "asdf.com",
        "oauth_allow_emails": "[email protected]"
    }
}

To add an authtoken instead of using the NGROK_AUTHTOKEN environment variable:

{
    "ngrok": {
        "authtoken": "<token>",
        "authtoken_from_env":false
    }
}