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# Interactive code examples
_for documentation, education and fun_ 🎉
Codapi is a platform for embedding interactive code snippets directly into your product documentation, online course or blog post.
```
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ def greet(name): │
│ print(f"Hello, {name}!") │
│ │
│ greet("World") │
└───────────────────────────────┘
Run ► Edit ✓ Done
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ Hello, World! │
└───────────────────────────────┘
```
Codapi manages sandboxes (isolated execution environments) and provides an API to execute code in these sandboxes. It also provides a JavaScript widget [codapi-js](https://github.com/nalgeon/codapi-js) for easier integration.
Highlights:
- Automatically converts static code examples into mini-playgrounds.
- Lightweight and easy to integrate.
- Sandboxes for any programming language, database, or software.
- Open source. Uses the permissive Apache-2.0 license.
For an introduction to Codapi, see this post: [Interactive code examples for fun and profit](https://antonz.org/code-examples/).
## Installation
See [Installing Codapi](docs/install.md) for details.
## Usage (API)
Call `/v1/exec` to run the code in a sandbox:
```http
POST https://api.codapi.org/v1/exec
content-type: application/json
{
"sandbox": "python",
"command": "run",
"files": {
"": "print('hello world')"
}
}
```
`sandbox` is the name of the pre-configured sandbox, and `command` is the name of a command supported by that sandbox. See [Adding a sandbox](docs/add-sandbox.md) for details on how to add a new sandbox.
`files` is a map, where the key is a filename and the value is its contents. When executing a single file, it should either be named as the `command` expects, or be an empty string (as in the example above).
Response:
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
```
- `id` is the unique execution identifier.
- `ok` is `true` if the code executed without errors, or `false` otherwise.
- `duration` is the execution time in milliseconds.
- `stdout` is what the code printed to the standard output.
- `stderr` is what the code printed to the standard error, or a compiler/os error (if any).
## Usage (JavaScript)
See [codapi-js](https://github.com/nalgeon/codapi-js) to embed the JavaScript widget into a web page. The widget uses exactly the same API as described above.
## Contributing
Contributions are welcome. For anything other than bugfixes, please first open an issue to discuss what you want to change.
Be sure to add or update tests as appropriate.
## License
Copyright 2023 [Anton Zhiyanov](https://antonz.org/).
The software is available under the Apache-2.0 license.
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