nova-api/setup.md

Setup

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• pip
• MongoDB database

Recommended

• git (for updates)
• screen (for production)
• Cloudflare (for security, anti-DDoS, etc.) - we fully support Cloudflare

Install

Assuming you have a new version of Python 3.9+ and pip installed:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

If you still get a ModuleNotFoundErrors, you can forefully install the dependencies using:

python -m pip install pipreqs
python -m pipreqs.pipreqs --force --mode no-pin
python -m pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

You can also try installing Nova API using setup.py:

python setup.py

or

pip install .

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Profanity checking requires:

pip install alt-profanity-check
# doesn't work? try
pip install git+https://github.com/dimitrismistriotis/alt-profanity-check.git

.env configuration

Create a .env file, make sure not to reveal any of its contents to anyone, and fill in the required values in the format KEY=VALUE. Otherwise, the code won't run.

Database

Set up a MongoDB database and set MONGO_URI to the MongoDB database connection URI. Quotation marks are definetly recommended here!

Proxy

• PROXY_TYPE (optional, defaults to socks.PROXY_TYPE_HTTP): the type of proxy - can be http, https, socks4, socks5, 4 or 5, etc...
• PROXY_HOST: the proxy host (host domain or IP address), without port!
• PROXY_PORT (optional)
• PROXY_USER (optional)
• PROXY_PASS (optional)

Want to use a proxy list? See the according section! Keep in mind to set USE_PROXY_LIST to True! Otherwise, the proxy list won't be used.

ACTUAL_IPS (optional)

This is a security measure to make sure a proxy, VPN, Tor or any other IP hiding service is used by the host when accessing "Closed"AI's API. It is a space separated list of IP addresses that are allowed to access the API. You can also just add the beginning of an API address, like 12.123. (without an asterisk!) to allow all IPs starting with 12.123..

To disable the warning if you don't have this feature enabled, set ACTUAL_IPS to None.

Timeout

TRANSFER_TIMEOUT seconds to wait until the program throws an exception for if the request takes too long. We recommend rather long times like 120 for two minutes.

Core Keys

CORE_API_KEY specifies the very secret key for which need to access the entire user database etc. TEST_NOVA_KEY is the API key the which is used in tests. It should be one with tons of credits.

Webhooks

DISCORD_WEBHOOK__USER_CREATED is the Discord webhook URL for when a user is created. DISCORD_WEBHOOK__API_ISSUE is the Discord webhook URL for when an API issue occurs.

Other

KEYGEN_INFIX can be almost any string (avoid spaces or special characters) - this string will be put in the middle of every NovaAI API key which is generated. This is useful for identifying the source of the key using e.g. RegEx.

Proxy Lists

To use proxy lists, navigate to api/secret/proxies/ and create the following files:

• http.txt
• socks4.txt
• socks5.txt

Then, paste your proxies in the following format:

[username:password@]host:port

e.g.

1.2.3.4:8080
user:pass@127.0.0.1:1337

You can use comments just like in Python.

Important: to use the proxy lists, you need to change the USE_PROXY_LIST environment variable to True!

Run

Warning: read the according section for production usage!

For developement:

python run

This will run the development server on port 2332.

You can also specify a port, e.g.:

python run 1337

Adding a provider

Test if it works

python checks

Ports

2332: Developement (default)
2333: Production

Production

Make sure your server is secure and up to date. Check everything.

The following command will run the API without a reloader!

python run prod

or

./screen.sh