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pyngrok is a Python wrapper for ngrok that manages its own binary, making ngrok available via a convenient Python API.

ngrok is a reverse proxy tool that opens secure tunnels from public URLs to localhost, perfect for exposing local web servers, building webhook integrations, enabling SSH access, testing chatbots, demoing from your own machine, and more, and its made even more powerful with native Python integration through pyngrok.

pyngrok is available on PyPI and can be installed using pip:

pip install pyngrok

or conda:

conda install -c conda-forge pyngrok

That's it! pyngrok is now available as a package to our Python projects, and ngrok is now available from the command line.

To open a tunnel, use the connect method, which returns a NgrokTunnel, and this returned object has a reference to the public URL generated by ngrok in its public_url attribute.

from pyngrok import ngrok

# Open a HTTP tunnel on the default port 80
# <NgrokTunnel: "http://<public_sub>.ngrok.io" -> "http://localhost:80">
http_tunnel = ngrok.connect()
# Open a SSH tunnel
# <NgrokTunnel: "tcp://0.tcp.ngrok.io:12345" -> "localhost:22">
ssh_tunnel = ngrok.connect(22, "tcp")

The connect method takes kwargs as well, which allows us to pass additional properties that are supported by ngrok.

This package puts the default ngrok binary on our path, so all features of ngrok are available on the command line.

ngrok http 80

For details on how to fully leverage ngrok from the command line, see ngrok's official documentation.

For more advanced usage, pyngrok's official documentation is available at http://pyngrok.readthedocs.io.

pyngrok is compatible with ngrok 2.x. If you use pyngrok to manage the ngrok binary, there will be no issues. But when providing your own binary, or when referencing ngrok documentation, ensure it is 2.x.

The last version of pyngrok that supports Python 2.7 is 4.1.x, so we need to pin pyngrok>=4.1,<4.2 if we still want to use pyngrok with this version of Python. Its legacy documentation can be found here.

If you would like to get involved, be sure to review the Contribution Guide.

Want to contribute financially? If you've found pyngrok useful, a donation would also be greatly appreciated!