open-webui VS llm

Luckily, there are some open-source projects like Open WebUI, which provide a web-based experience similar to ChatGPT, that you can also run locally and point to any model. To start the Open WebUI Docker container locally, run the command below in your Terminal (make sure, that ollama serve is still running).

I like the project.

What does this have that is better than https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui ?

Be careful with unstructured:

https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/blob/d11c70c...

from: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/687

For anyone else who missed the announcement a few hours ago, open-webui is the rebranding of the project formerly known as ollama-webui [0].

I can vouch for it as a solid frontend for Ollama. It works really well and has had an astounding pace of development. Every few weeks I pull the latest docker images and am always surprised by how much has improved.

[0] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/discussions/764

That's a great use case, you might be able to do this if you've got a copy and paste on the command line with

https://github.com/simonw/llm

In between. An alias like pdfwtf translating to "paste | llm command | copy"

I added support for this model to my LLM CLI tool via a new plugin: https://github.com/simonw/llm-command-r

So now you can do this:

    pipx install llm

If you're willing to use the CLI, Simon Willison's llm library[0] should do the trick.

[0] https://github.com/simonw/llm

I'm not thrilled about https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/localllm/blob/main/ll... calling their Python package "llm" and installing "llm" as a CLI command, when my similar https://llm.datasette.io/ project has that namespace reserved on PyPI already: https://pypi.org/project/llm/

I've been gleefully exploring the intersection of LLMs and CLI utilities for a few months now - they are such a great fit for each other! The unix philosophy of piping things together is a perfect fit for how LLMs work.

I've mostly been exploring this with my https://llm.datasette.io/ CLI tool, but I have a few other one-off tools as well: https://github.com/simonw/blip-caption and https://github.com/simonw/ospeak

I'm puzzled that more people aren't loudly exploring this space (LLM+CLI) - it's really fun.

Seems nice if you're using c# or java. It also supports python, but for that Simon's llm library is nice because he designed it as both a library and a command line tool: https://github.com/simonw/llm