mowen-server 2.0.0

Web server for mowen authorship attribution toolkit

mowen-server

FastAPI web server and React UI for mowen, the authorship attribution toolkit.

Install

pip install mowen-server

This installs the mowen-server command, the core library, and all server dependencies.

Usage

mowen-server

Open http://localhost:8000 for the web UI. API docs at http://localhost:8000/docs.

Features

• Upload and manage documents (plain text, PDF, DOCX, HTML)
• Organize documents into corpora
• Import from 20 bundled sample corpora (Federalist Papers, Shakespeare, Homer, etc.)
• Build experiments with a step-by-step wizard and 16 stylometry presets
• View attribution results with performance metrics and score visualizations
• REST API with OpenAPI documentation

Configuration

Environment variables (all prefixed MOWEN_):

Variable	Default	Description
MOWEN_DATABASE_URL	sqlite:///{home}/.mowen/data.db	Database connection
MOWEN_UPLOAD_DIR	~/.mowen/documents	Document storage path
MOWEN_HOST	127.0.0.1	Bind address
MOWEN_PORT	8000	Port
MOWEN_CORS_ORIGINS	["*"]	Allowed CORS origins

Docker

docker compose up

Serves the full app at http://localhost:8000 with data persisted in a Docker volume.

Documentation

See the mowen repository for full documentation.

License

MIT — Copyright 2026 John Noecker Jr.