diff --git a/api-example-finetune.py b/api-example-finetune.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a39b6d59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api-example-finetune.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import json
+import requests
+
+HOST = 'localhost:5000'
+URI = f'http://{HOST}/api/v1/finetune'
+
+def finetune(lora_name, raw_text_file):
+    request = {
+        'lora_name': lora_name,
+        'raw_text_file': raw_text_file,
+    }
+
+    response = requests.post(URI, json=request)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    lora_name = 'lora'
+    raw_text_file = 'input'
+    finetune(lora_name, raw_text_file)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/extensions/api/blocking_api.py b/extensions/api/blocking_api.py
index 8c2326f4..9009c44a 100644
--- a/extensions/api/blocking_api.py
+++ b/extensions/api/blocking_api.py
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ import json
 from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
 from threading import Thread
 
-from extensions.api.util import build_parameters, try_start_cloudflared
+from extensions.api.util import build_parameters, build_parameters_train, try_start_cloudflared
 from modules import shared
 from modules.chat import generate_chat_reply
 from modules.text_generation import encode, generate_reply
-
+from modules.training import do_train
 
 class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
     def do_GET(self):
@@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
 
             self.wfile.write(response.encode('utf-8'))
 
+        elif self.path == '/api/v1/finetune':
+            self.send_response(200)
+            self.send_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
+            self.end_headers()
+
+            generate_params = build_parameters_train(body)
+            while True:
+                try:
+                    print(next(do_train(**generate_params)))
+                except StopIteration:
+                    break
+
         elif self.path == '/api/v1/token-count':
             self.send_response(200)
             self.send_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
diff --git a/extensions/api/util.py b/extensions/api/util.py
index 9c6dd30e..d8eb9f0c 100644
--- a/extensions/api/util.py
+++ b/extensions/api/util.py
@@ -61,6 +61,35 @@ def build_parameters(body, chat=False):
 
     return generate_params
 
+def build_parameters_train(body):
+    generate_params = {
+        'lora_name': str(body.get('lora_name', 'lora')),
+        'always_override': bool(body.get('always_override', False)),
+        'save_steps': int(body.get('save_steps', 0)),
+        'micro_batch_size': int(body.get('micro_batch_size', 4)),
+        'batch_size': int(body.get('batch_size', 128)),
+        'epochs': int(body.get('epochs', 3)),
+        'learning_rate': float(body.get('learning_rate', 3e-4)),
+        'lr_scheduler_type': str(body.get('lr_scheduler_type', 'linear')),
+        'lora_rank': int(body.get('lora_rank', 32)),
+        'lora_alpha': int(body.get('lora_alpha', 64)),
+        'lora_dropout': float(body.get('lora_dropout', 0.05)),
+        'cutoff_len': int(body.get('cutoff_len', 256)),
+        'dataset': str(body.get('dataset', None)),
+        'eval_dataset': str(body.get('eval_dataset', None)),
+        'format': str(body.get('format', None)),
+        'eval_steps': int(body.get('eval_steps', 100)),
+        'raw_text_file': str(body.get('raw_text_file', None)),
+        'overlap_len': int(body.get('overlap_len', 128)),
+        'newline_favor_len': int(body.get('newline_favor_len', 128)),
+        'higher_rank_limit': bool(body.get('higher_rank_limit', False)),
+        'warmup_steps': int(body.get('warmup_steps', 100)),
+        'optimizer': str(body.get('optimizer', 'adamw_torch')),
+        'hard_cut_string': str(body.get('hard_cut_string', '\\n\\n\\n')),
+        'train_only_after': str(body.get('train_only_after', ''))
+    }
+
+    return generate_params
 
 def try_start_cloudflared(port: int, max_attempts: int = 3, on_start: Optional[Callable[[str], None]] = None):
     Thread(target=_start_cloudflared, args=[