how can I restart ComfyUI via the API?

[vesper8]

I have this custom extension that I added to ComfyUI Manager

import { app } from "../../scripts/app.js";
import { api } from "../../scripts/api.js"

app.registerExtension({
	name: "Comfy.ManagerMenu.extra.restart",
    async setup() {
        const menu = document.querySelector(".comfy-menu");

        const restartButton = document.createElement("button");
        restartButton.textContent = "Restart";
        restartButton.style.color = "#d72756";
        restartButton.onclick = () => {
            api.fetchApi("/manager/reboot");
        };

        const swlocaleBtn = document.getElementById("swlocale-button");
        menu.insertBefore(restartButton, swlocaleBtn.nextSibling);
    }
});

It adds a convenient restart button so you can save a click. It also shows how easy it is to access the internal api.

I am constantly having to manually restart ComfyUI whenever a workflow fails, or sometimes when I am switching workflows, some workflows will only work after restarting ComfyUI.

I would really like to be able to perform these commands by hitting the API that you expose in this package.

Is there any possibility to do that already? If not, why not? Is there another way to restart via API?

Many thanks!

[TimPietrusky]

@vesper8 thanks for bringing this up.

There is no way in the runpod-worker-comfy to restart the API yet. Does "/manager/reboot" come from the ComfyUI Manager? This is not standard ComfyUI, right?

Would you mind to share your use case? I would love to understand, why this feature would be needed in the real world. Does this happen locally when you are developing or do you also need this when the serverless API is deployed on RunPod?