Environment variable indicating my app is running on streamlit sharing

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Hello,

I am currently deploying an app to streamlit sharing, where I allow users to play around with pre-trained text generation models, but also lets them train their own using their own dataset if they want to.

Due to the limited size of the VMs, I want to make it so that users can only train models if they have cloned the github repo to their local machine and are training using their own resources.

What I am not sure about however is how to know if my app is running in the streamlit sharing vm. Is there some kind of evironment variable I could check? IE

os.environ["IS_STREAMLIT_SHARING"] == True

And then I could do some conditional logic in my app like:

if os.environ.get("IS_STREAMLIT_SHARING"):
    st.warning("As you are on streamlit sharing you cannot run traning. Please clone repo to train your own model")
else:
    # train model

If not, are there any other ways I could tell if an app is running on streamlit sharing or not?

Looking forward to your response.

Cal

EDIT: Add some more clarity to request

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My 2 cents! Differences that I can see from my local environments to Streamlit Share.

Environment vars:

These ones are not available on my local box

STREAMLIT_SERVER_ENABLE_XSRF_PROTECTION=false
MAPBOX_API_KEY=
STREAMLIT_SERVER_RUN_ON_SAVE=true
STREAMLIT_SERVER_ALLOW_RUN_ON_SAVE=false

Other option should be to check for some file. Files that are unlikely to be available on your local environment:

/entrypoint # Unless you're running a docker container
/app/.supervisord.conf
/home/appuser/.streamlit/ # this one is a directory
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@franciscoed Aha, thank you very much!

While these certainly seem like they will do the trick (and I will use in the short term), I wonder if the streamlit team think it could be useful to add an explicit environment variable on the streamlit sharing VMs that match the one I defined in my question so it can be used in a more natural way

(ie, the way I would use those environment variables Francisco has mentioned would be to check that they exist and then if they exist, know I am in streamlit sharing, rather than just explicitly an environment variable that tells me I am in streamlit sharing)

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I agree, a simple IS_STREAMLIT_SHARING variable would be quite handy.

In the mean time, maybe you can try something like…

import os
IS_STREAMLIT_SHARING = os.getenv('USER') == 'appuser'
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