How to run Open-WebUI as a python app without using the open-webui.exe (what...

distro_dave

I want to run open-webui as a Python app, like starting it with python xxx.py but I don't see how. it's seems to be all in Python but there is a mysterious (to me) open-webui.exe that runs first presumably sets some things, and then invokes other Python functions from other modules. It is possible to run it only from Python or is the source of this .exe released? Here's my startup script so far, but it is failing since it doesn't know the...

Originally asked by BrownInTown on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

According to the documentation: Open WebUI can be installed using pip, the Python package installer. Before proceeding, ensure you're using Python 3.11 to avoid compatibility issues. You can install python 3.11 with asdf : asdf install python 3.11.12 Create a virtual environment to avoid conflicts with other libraries: python -m venv venv Activate the virtual environment: source venv/bin/activate Install open-webui: pip install open-webui Launch it with: open-webui serve This will start the Open WebUI server, which you can access at http://localhost:8080. Tested on macOS 15.4, with python 3.11.12 Note that open-webui is a python script launching open-webui: import re import sys from...

Full answer by Ortomala Lokni: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/79600999 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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