Running a Rasa SDK Action Server

Running the Action Server

There are two ways to run the action server, depending on whether you are using an environment with rasa installed or not:

If rasa is installed

You can run the action server using a rasa command:

rasa run actions

If rasa is not installed

You can run the action server directly as a python module:

Using the SANIC_HOST environment variable

You can make your assistant listen on a specific address:

SANIC_HOST=192.168.69.150 rasa run actions

Running as Python module

You can also run it using:

python -m rasa_sdk --actions actions

Using the command above, rasa_sdk will expect to find your actions in a file called actions.py or in a package directory called actions. You can specify a different actions module or package with the --actions flag.

Full List of Options for Running the Action Server

usage: __main__.py [-h] [-p PORT] [--cors [CORS ...]] [--actions ACTIONS]
                    [--ssl-keyfile SSL_KEYFILE]
                    [--ssl-certificate SSL_CERTIFICATE]
                    [--ssl-password SSL_PASSWORD] [--auto-reload]
                    [-v] [-vv] [--quiet] [--log-file LOG_FILE]
                    [--logging-config_file LOGGING_CONFIG_FILE]

Options:

• -h, --help: show this help message and exit
• -p PORT, --port PORT: port to run the server at
• --cors [CORS ...]: enable CORS for the passed origin. Use * to whitelist all origins
• --actions ACTIONS: name of action package to be loaded
• --ssl-keyfile SSL_KEYFILE: Set the SSL certificate to create a TLS secured server.
• --ssl-certificate SSL_CERTIFICATE: Set the SSL certificate to create a TLS secured server.
• --ssl-password SSL_PASSWORD: If your ssl-keyfile is protected by a password, you can specify it using this parameter.
• --auto-reload: Enable auto-reloading of modules containing Action subclasses.
• -v, --verbose: Be verbose. Sets logging level to INFO.
• -vv, --debug: Print lots of debugging statements. Sets logging level to DEBUG.
• --quiet: Be quiet! Sets logging level to WARNING.
• --log-file LOG_FILE: Store logs in a specified file.
• --logging-config_file LOGGING_CONFIG_FILE: If set, the name of the logging configuration file will be set to the given name.