How to run a workflow programmatically just using comfy, without starting the comfyui server?

[PeterTF656]

Hey guys, I'm looking for a command that can run a workflow programmatically just using comfy, without starting the comfyui server. It was mentioned here in this issue

[SayanoAI]

this would be extremely useful for cloud serverless applications!

[robinjhuang]

You can run a workflow like this:

comfy launch --background
comfy run --workflow /path/to/api_workflow.json

You MUST start the comfy server to run anything. However you don't need to open the UI to run a workflow.

[q351941406]

@robinjhuang How can I check the progress of the task?

[robinjhuang]

Not supported yet!

[q351941406]

@robinjhuang You can add this feature because many tasks are very time-consuming, and we need to know the progress.

[robinjhuang]

We're a bit swamped at the moment, but can you write a PR? Probably the easiest thing is to stream the STDOUT of the comfy server to the cli STDOUT during the workflow run.

[q351941406]

I'm not good enough