Migrate to @fal-ai/client
The @fal-ai/serverless-client
package has been deprecated in favor of @fal-ai/client
. Please check the migration guide for more information.
A single API for text-to-image, built on fal that supports all Stable Diffusion variants, checkpoints and LoRAs from HuggingFace (🤗) and CivitAI.
The client provides a convenient way to interact with the model API.
npm install --save @fal-ai/client
The @fal-ai/serverless-client
package has been deprecated in favor of @fal-ai/client
. Please check the migration guide for more information.
Set FAL_KEY
as an environment variable in your runtime.
export FAL_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
The client API handles the API submit protocol. It will handle the request status updates and return the result when the request is completed.
import { fal } from "@fal-ai/client";
const result = await fal.subscribe("fal-ai/sd-loras", {
input: {
model_name: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
prompt: "Photo of a european medieval 40 year old queen, silver hair, highly detailed face, detailed eyes, head shot, intricate crown, age spots, wrinkles"
},
logs: true,
onQueueUpdate: (update) => {
if (update.status === "IN_PROGRESS") {
update.logs.map((log) => log.message).forEach(console.log);
}
},
});
console.log(result.data);
console.log(result.requestId);
The API uses an API Key for authentication. It is recommended you set the FAL_KEY
environment variable in your runtime when possible.
import { fal } from "@fal-ai/client";
fal.config({
credentials: "YOUR_FAL_KEY"
});
When running code on the client-side (e.g. in a browser, mobile app or GUI applications), make sure to not expose your FAL_KEY
. Instead, use a server-side proxy to make requests to the API. For more information, check out our server-side integration guide.
The client API provides a convenient way to submit requests to the model.
import { fal } from "@fal-ai/client";
const { request_id } = await fal.queue.submit("fal-ai/sd-loras", {
input: {
model_name: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
prompt: "Photo of a european medieval 40 year old queen, silver hair, highly detailed face, detailed eyes, head shot, intricate crown, age spots, wrinkles"
},
webhookUrl: "https://optional.webhook.url/for/results",
});
You can fetch the status of a request to check if it is completed or still in progress.
import { fal } from "@fal-ai/client";
const status = await fal.queue.status("fal-ai/sd-loras", {
requestId: "764cabcf-b745-4b3e-ae38-1200304cf45b",
logs: true,
});
Once the request is completed, you can fetch the result. See the Output Schema for the expected result format.
import { fal } from "@fal-ai/client";
const result = await fal.queue.result("fal-ai/sd-loras", {
requestId: "764cabcf-b745-4b3e-ae38-1200304cf45b"
});
console.log(result.data);
console.log(result.requestId);
Some attributes in the API accept file URLs as input. Whenever that's the case you can pass your own URL or a Base64 data URI.
You can pass a Base64 data URI as a file input. The API will handle the file decoding for you. Keep in mind that for large files, this alternative although convenient can impact the request performance.
You can also pass your own URLs as long as they are publicly accessible. Be aware that some hosts might block cross-site requests, rate-limit, or consider the request as a bot.
We provide a convenient file storage that allows you to upload files and use them in your requests. You can upload files using the client API and use the returned URL in your requests.
import { fal } from "@fal-ai/client";
const file = new File(["Hello, World!"], "hello.txt", { type: "text/plain" });
const url = await fal.storage.upload(file);
The client will auto-upload the file for you if you pass a binary object (e.g. File
, Data
).
Read more about file handling in our file upload guide.
model_name
string
* requiredURL or HuggingFace ID of the base model to generate the image.
prompt
string
* requiredThe prompt to use for generating the image. Be as descriptive as possible for best results.
negative_prompt
string
The negative prompt to use.Use it to address details that you don't want
in the image. This could be colors, objects, scenery and even the small details
(e.g. moustache, blurry, low resolution). Default value: ""
The LoRAs to use for the image generation. You can use any number of LoRAs and they will be merged together to generate the final image.
The embeddings to use for the image generation. Only a single embedding is supported at the moment. The embeddings will be used to map the tokens in the prompt to the embedding weights.
seed
integer
The same seed and the same prompt given to the same version of Stable Diffusion will output the same image every time.
The size of the generated image. You can choose between some presets or custom height and width
that must be multiples of 8. Default value: square_hd
Possible enum values: square_hd, square, portrait_4_3, portrait_16_9, landscape_4_3, landscape_16_9
Note: For custom image sizes, you can pass the width
and height
as an object:
"image_size": {
"width": 1280,
"height": 720
}
num_inference_steps
integer
Increasing the amount of steps tells Stable Diffusion that it should take more steps
to generate your final result which can increase the amount of detail in your image. Default value: 30
guidance_scale
float
The CFG (Classifier Free Guidance) scale is a measure of how close you want
the model to stick to your prompt when looking for a related image to show you. Default value: 7.5
clip_skip
integer
Skips part of the image generation process, leading to slightly different results. This means the image renders faster, too.
model_architecture
ModelArchitectureEnum
The architecture of the model to use. If an HF model is used, it will be automatically detected. Otherwise will assume depending on the model name (whether XL is in the name or not).
Possible enum values: sd, sdxl
scheduler
SchedulerEnum
Scheduler / sampler to use for the image denoising process.
Possible enum values: DPM++ 2M, DPM++ 2M Karras, DPM++ 2M SDE, DPM++ 2M SDE Karras, Euler, Euler A, LCM
image_format
ImageFormatEnum
The format of the generated image. Default value: "png"
Possible enum values: jpeg, png
num_images
integer
Number of images to generate in one request. Note that the higher the batch size,
the longer it will take to generate the images. Default value: 1
enable_safety_checker
boolean
If set to true, the safety checker will be enabled.
{
"model_name": "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
"prompt": "Photo of a european medieval 40 year old queen, silver hair, highly detailed face, detailed eyes, head shot, intricate crown, age spots, wrinkles",
"negative_prompt": "cartoon, painting, illustration, (worst quality, low quality, normal quality:2)",
"loras": [
{
"path": "https://civitai.com/api/download/models/135931",
"scale": 1
}
],
"embeddings": [
{
"path": "https://storage.googleapis.com/falserverless/style_lora/emb_our_test_1.safetensors",
"tokens": [
"<s0>",
"<s1>"
]
}
],
"image_size": "square_hd",
"num_inference_steps": 30,
"guidance_scale": 7.5,
"image_format": "jpeg",
"num_images": 1
}
The generated image files info.
seed
integer
* requiredSeed of the generated Image. It will be the same value of the one passed in the input or the randomly generated that was used in case none was passed.
Whether the generated images contain NSFW concepts.
{
"images": [
{
"url": "",
"content_type": "image/png",
"file_name": "z9RV14K95DvU.png",
"file_size": 4404019,
"width": 1024,
"height": 1024
}
]
}
width
integer
The width of the generated image. Default value: 512
height
integer
The height of the generated image. Default value: 512
path
string
* requiredURL or the path to the LoRA weights.
scale
float
The scale of the LoRA weight. This is used to scale the LoRA weight
before merging it with the base model. Default value: 1
path
string
* requiredURL or the path to the embedding weights.
The tokens to map the embedding weights to. Use these tokens in your prompts. Default value: <s0>,<s1>
url
string
* requiredThe URL where the file can be downloaded from.
content_type
string
The mime type of the file.
file_name
string
The name of the file. It will be auto-generated if not provided.
file_size
integer
The size of the file in bytes.
width
integer
The width of the image in pixels.
height
integer
The height of the image in pixels.