Javscript access / API reference?

[David Russell]

Hi all,

I have som students writing a webpage, and wanting to access their ML4K models using javascript.

It's clearly possible, as it's the way (I assume) that the python interface seems to work. 

Is there an API guide somewhere that I can refer to?

David

[Dale Lane]

I would rather that you didn't do this, please. 

You are correct that I am currently not doing very much to prevent this, other than standard CORS which would prevent you doing it from a webpage. I know there are ways that you could workaround that, such as by running a proxy, and it would mean additional effort on my part to do more to enforce my request - so for now, I'm just asking - please don't publish public web-pages driven by the APIs that I provide. 

My primary concern is the risk of your students publishing private API keys used to secure the Machine Learning for Kids API on a public unauthenticated and unprotected webpage, so if you would ensure that students only host those webpages on a private internal network and not on the Internet, or require a secure form of authentication to access it, then this would go some way to mitigate that concern. 

Kind regards

Dale