up hf inference interface

app.py

@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 # Demo for T5 trained on multi-angular AAAC
 
+import json
 import textwrap
 import re
 
 import streamlit as st 
 from spacy import displacy
 import graphviz
+import requests
 import seaborn as sns
 
 import aaac_util as aaac
 
-from huggingface_hub.inference_api import InferenceApi
 
 
 INTRO_TEXT = """This app let's you explore ArgumentAnalyst, a system for 
@@ -85,15 +86,18 @@ def params(config):
 
     
 def build_inference_api():
-    inference = InferenceApi(
-        repo_id="debatelab/argument-analyst", 
-        # token=st.secrets['api_token'] # for free without token, but faster with token
-    )
-    return inference    
-    #config.max_answer = 450
-    #config.max_seq_len = 450
-    #config.no_repeat_ngram_size = 0
-    
+    """HF inference api"""
+    API_URL = "https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/debatelab/argument-analyst"
+    headers = {}# {"Authorization": f"Bearer {st.secrets['api_token']}"}
+
+    def query(inputs: str, parameters):
+        payload = {"inputs": inputs}
+        payload.update(parameters)
+        data = json.dumps(payload)
+        response = requests.request("POST", API_URL, headers=headers, data=data)
+        return json.loads(response.content.decode("utf-8"))
+
+    return query
 
 
 @st.cache(allow_output_mutation=True)