# Is there a sort of API with which we can run processing.py in a server?

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**Category:** Processing.py\
**Created:** [July 28, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-a-sort-of-api-with-which-we-can-run-processing-py-in-a-server/13020 "2019-07-28T08:46:21Z")\
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I’m not familiar with CodeMirror, but it looks like creating the custom mode will be the easy part (it already appears to have a Python mode you could extend upon).

I’m guessing you’d like to create something like this?  
[https://trinket.io/processing](https://trinket.io/processing)

For ideas about running the code, check out this post:  
[https://discourse.processing.org/t/running-python-code-in-a-browser/236/6](https://discourse.processing.org/t/running-python-code-in-a-browser/236/6)

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