robertvoy-ComfyUI-Distributed/docs/model-download-script.md

Automating ComfyUI Model Downloads

This guide will walk you through creating a shell script to automatically download the necessary models for your ComfyUI workflow, leveraging an advanced Large Language Model (LLM).

1. Launched the Pod with these Environment Variables:

• CIVITAI_API_TOKEN (get your token here)
• HF_API_TOKEN (get your token here)

2. In ComfyUI, export your workflow as an API workflow
3. Copy the below prompt and upload the API workflow to a LLM that has access to the internet

Create a sh script that will download the models from this workflow into the correct folders. For reference, these are the paths:

base_path: /workspace/ComfyUI
checkpoints: models/checkpoints/
clip: models/clip/
clip_vision: models/clip_vision/
controlnet: models/controlnet/
diffusion_models: models/diffusion_models/
embeddings: models/embeddings/
florence2: models/florence2/
ipadapter: models/ipadapter/
loras: models/loras/
style_models: models/style_models/
text_encoders: models/text_encoders/
unet: models/unet/
upscale_models: models/upscale_models/
vae: models/vae/

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Important:
Make sure you find the correct URLs for the models online.
Use comfy cli to download the models: `comfy model download --url <URL> [--relative-path <PATH>] [--set-civitai-api-token <TOKEN>] [--set-hf-api-token <TOKEN>]`
Make sure you add `--set-civitai-api-token $CIVITAI_API_TOKEN` for CivitAI download and `--set-hf-api-token $HF_API_TOKEN` for Hugging Face downloads.

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Example:

#!/bin/bash

# Download from CivitAI
comfy model download --url https://civitai.com/api/download/models/1759168 --relative-path /workspace/ComfyUI/models/checkpoints --set-civitai-api-token $CIVITAI_API_TOKEN

# Download model from Hugging Face
comfy model download --url https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev/resolve/main/flux1-dev.safetensors --relative-path /workspace/ComfyUI/models/unet --set-hf-api-token $HF_API_TOKEN

# If a model in the workflow was in a subfolder
comfy model download --url https://civitai.com/api/download/models/1759168 --relative-path /workspace/ComfyUI/models/checkpoints/SDXL --set-civitai-api-token $CIVITAI_API_TOKEN

4. Review the LLMs output to make sure all download links are correct and save it as a .sh file, for example download_models.sh
5. Upload it onto your Runpod instance, into /workspace
6. Then run these commands:
   • chmod 755 /workspace/download_models.sh
   • /workspace/download_models.sh