Mopidy-HTTP

Mopidy-HTTP is an extension that lets you control Mopidy through HTTP and WebSockets, for example from a web client. It is bundled with Mopidy and enabled by default if all dependencies are available.

When it is enabled it starts a web server at the port specified by the http/port config value.

Warning

As a simple security measure, the web server is by default only available from localhost. To make it available from other computers, change the http/hostname config value. Before you do so, note that the HTTP extension does not feature any form of user authentication or authorization. Anyone able to access the web server can use the full core API of Mopidy. Thus, you probably only want to make the web server available from your local network or place it behind a web proxy which takes care or user authentication. You have been warned.

Using a web based Mopidy client

Mopidy-HTTP’s web server can also host any static files, for example the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images needed for a web based Mopidy client. To host static files, change the http/static_dir config value to point to the root directory of your web client, for example:

[http]
static_dir = /home/alice/dev/the-client

If the directory includes a file named index.html, it will be served on the root of Mopidy’s web server.

If you’re making a web based client and wants to do server side development as well, you are of course free to run your own web server and just use Mopidy’s web server to host the API end points. But, for clients implemented purely in JavaScript, letting Mopidy host the files is a simpler solution.

See HTTP API for details on how to integrate with Mopidy over HTTP. If you’re looking for a web based client for Mopidy, go check out HTTP clients.

Dependencies

In addition to Mopidy’s dependencies, Mopidy-HTTP requires the following:

  • cherrypy >= 3.2.2. Available as python-cherrypy3 in Debian/Ubuntu.
  • ws4py >= 0.2.3. Available as python-ws4py in newer Debian/Ubuntu and from apt.mopidy.com for older releases of Debian/Ubuntu.

If you’re installing Mopidy with pip, you can run the following command to install Mopidy with the extra dependencies for required for Mopidy-HTTP:

pip install --upgrade Mopidy[http]

If you’re installing Mopidy from APT, the additional dependencies needed for Mopidy-HTTP are always included.

Configuration

See Configuration for general help on configuring Mopidy.

[http]
enabled = true
hostname = 127.0.0.1
port = 6680
static_dir =
zeroconf = Mopidy HTTP server on $hostname
http/enabled

If the HTTP extension should be enabled or not.

http/hostname

Which address the HTTP server should bind to.

127.0.0.1
Listens only on the IPv4 loopback interface
::1
Listens only on the IPv6 loopback interface
0.0.0.0
Listens on all IPv4 interfaces
::
Listens on all interfaces, both IPv4 and IPv6
http/port

Which TCP port the HTTP server should listen to.

http/static_dir

Which directory the HTTP server should serve at “/”

Change this to have Mopidy serve e.g. files for your JavaScript client. “/mopidy” will continue to work as usual even if you change this setting.

http/zeroconf

Name of the HTTP service when published through Zeroconf. The variables $hostname and $port can be used in the name.

Set to an empty string to disable Zeroconf for HTTP.