How to use my space on my website?

Beginners
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Hi folks, i’m just starting in this magical world and i’m very confused about this topic.
From what I saw, if my space is public, I can use an I frame which will show on my website the Gradio interface and I will be able to interact with my space through my website.

What if I’d like to keep the space private? How that works?
Can it be done through HuggingFace or do I need to interact with Replicate? Or which is the proper way to do it? Also beside the proper way, as for everything, there should be a beginners friendly way and from there, understand the process and scale to a more advanced one.

If anyone could help me understanding the whole process it would be awesome, thanks folks!

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Whether it is Spaces or models, just Make private from the respective settings and you are done.

Detailed operation may be found in the manual.
The reason it may be is that I don’t have a Webpage. I used to have one.

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Thanks but it feels like all these methods work for a public space and not for a private space. Can you help?

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Oops! I misunderstood completely backwards.
You want to keep the space private and publish it on your website.
That seems to be quite a difficult task as the HF token doesn’t seem to work…

I think it would be faster to sift through the users while keeping it public.
You only let the traffic from your site through, and repel the others. (including from HF).

I’m not sure, I’ve never used it, but perhaps you could also gated it and use HF’s read token.
It is often used by companies and other organizations.

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Thanks a lot for your help!
I was thinking maybe it’s me thinking to use HS in a way it’s not suppose to work?

I mean, let’s say you want to create an application based on a model or make your own here. Since this is a hosting for models, in some way, from my understanding, it should be used also for applications which are restricted only to users who pay to use the application, right?

Is HF designed to handle this or it’s me getting it wrong?

I mean, if you would created an AI model which for example changes the contrast of an image and you would like to make it available only to your users (let’s say inside a membership area), how this should be done?

Thanks.

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I don’t think it’s possible to embed a private Space in a public website. However there’s a workaround explained here: Embedding a private space on my website - #2 by radames

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I mean, if you would created an AI model which for example changes the contrast of an image and you would like to make it available only to your users (let’s say inside a membership area), how this should be done?

If the private model is used externally, the story is simple. The difficult part, as nielsr mentioned, is the external use of private space.
I think that if HF allows it in the model, they should allow it in the space as well…

Models and datasets can be written this way any way you want. The only tedious part is that, for practical use, the tokens must be stored somewhere other than in the code so that they are not leaked.

access_token = "hf_..."
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("private/model", token=access_token)

Only extremely server-intensive items, such as huge language models for large companies, are paid for. The others don’t cost anything. Especially if you have prepared the model yourself, you don’t have to pay unless it is a very large model.

Anyway, it is hard to hide a space in the same way as it is now, so unless you really want to keep the existence of the space itself a secret, I think the quickest way is to keep it public and restrict access. It is much easier if the model alone is valid.
If it is a language model, it is even possible to use the OpenAI client as is.

P.S.

Incidentally, I have recently come to realize that there are many more cases of unimplemented features in HF are not those with very strict philosophies, but such as simply forgetting to create them or not recognizing the demand for the feature.
The same may be true for the private publishing feature of Spaces.

If you have a request, I’m sure you can send a mentions to the victor or someone else yourself and they will respond, or you can wait for the occasional opportunity to solicit requests as shown below and get on board.

@name message…

You can send a Mention like this. Be careful, because it will be sent to the person you sent it to immediately.