diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
index dcffdc3..62a369b 100644
--- a/__init__.py
+++ b/__init__.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ from aiohttp import web
 
 import server
 
-from .utils import collections_path, browser_path, sources_path
-from .routes import sources, collections, config, files
+from .utils import collections_path, browser_path, sources_path, download_logs_path
+from .routes import sources, collections, config, files, downloads
 
 browser_app = web.Application()
 browser_app.add_routes([
@@ -26,18 +26,15 @@ browser_app.add_routes([
     web.get("/config", config.api_get_browser_config),
     web.put("/config", config.api_update_browser_config),
 
+    web.post("/downloads", downloads.api_create_new_download),
+
     web.static("/web", path.join(browser_path, 'web/build')),
 ])
 server.PromptServer.instance.app.add_subapp("/browser/", browser_app)
 
-def init_path():
-    if not path.exists(collections_path):
-        mkdir(collections_path)
-
-    if not path.exists(sources_path):
-        mkdir(sources_path)
-
-init_path()
+for dir in [collections_path, sources_path, download_logs_path]:
+    if not path.exists(dir):
+        mkdir(dir)
 
 WEB_DIRECTORY = "web"
 NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS = {}
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78620c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tqdm
diff --git a/routes/downloads.py b/routes/downloads.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..438a3e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/routes/downloads.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+from os import path
+import requests
+import time
+import asyncio
+import json
+from aiohttp import web
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+import folder_paths
+
+from ..utils import download_logs_path
+
+def parse_options_header(content_disposition):
+    param, options = '', {}
+    split_header = content_disposition.split(';')
+
+    # Extract the first parameter
+    if len(split_header) > 0:
+        param = split_header[0].strip()
+
+    # Extract the options
+    for option in split_header[1:]:
+        option_split = option.split('=')
+        if len(option_split) == 2:
+            key = option_split[0].strip()
+            value = option_split[1].strip().strip('"')
+            options[key] = value
+
+    return param, options
+
+
+# credit: https://gist.github.com/phineas-pta/d73f9a035b05f8e923af8c01df057175
+async def download_by_requests(uuid:str, download_url:str, save_in:str, filename:str="", overwrite:bool=False, chunk_size:int=1):
+    log_file_path = path.join(download_logs_path, uuid + '.json')
+    base_info = {
+        'uuid': uuid,
+        'download_url': download_url,
+        'save_in': save_in,
+        'filename': filename,
+        'overwrite': overwrite,
+        'result': '',
+        'total_size': 0,
+        'downloaded_size': 0,
+    }
+    with open(log_file_path, 'w') as log_file:
+        json.dump(base_info, log_file)
+
+    HEADERS = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
+
+    with requests.get(download_url, headers=HEADERS, stream=True) as resp:
+        MISSING_FILENAME = f"unkwown_{uuid}"
+        # get file name
+        if filename == "":
+            if content_disposition := resp.headers.get("Content-Disposition"):
+                param, options = parse_options_header(content_disposition)
+                if param == "attachment":
+                    filename = options.get("filename", MISSING_FILENAME)
+            else:
+                fileext = path.splitext(filename)[-1]
+                if fileext != "":
+                    filename = path.basename(download_url)
+        if filename == "":
+            filename = MISSING_FILENAME
+
+        base_info['filename'] = filename
+        with open(log_file_path, 'w') as log_file:
+            json.dump(base_info, log_file)
+
+        target_path = path.join(folder_paths.models_dir, save_in, filename)
+        if not overwrite and path.exists(target_path):
+            base_info['result'] = f'{target_path} already exists'
+            return
+
+        # download file
+        TOTAL_SIZE = int(resp.headers.get("Content-Length", 0))
+        CHUNK_SIZE = chunk_size * 10**6
+        with (
+            open(target_path, mode="wb") as file,
+            open(log_file_path, 'w') as log_file,
+            tqdm(total=TOTAL_SIZE, desc=f"download {filename}", unit="B", unit_scale=True) as bar,
+        ):
+            base_info['total_size'] = TOTAL_SIZE
+            for data in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=CHUNK_SIZE):
+                size = file.write(data)
+                bar.update(size)
+                base_info['downloaded_size'] += size
+                log_file.seek(0)
+                json.dump(base_info, log_file)
+                log_file.write('\n' * 2)
+
+# download_url, filename, save_in, overwrite
+async def api_create_new_download(request):
+    json_data = await request.json()
+    download_url = json_data.get('download_url', None)
+    save_in = json_data.get('save_in', None)
+    filename = json_data.get('filename', '')
+    overwrite = json_data.get('overwrite', False)
+
+    if not (download_url and save_in):
+        return web.Response(status=400)
+
+    if '..' in save_in:
+        return web.Response(status=400)
+
+    asyncio.create_task(download_by_requests(str(int(time.time())), download_url, save_in, filename, overwrite))
+
+    return web.json_response(status=201)
diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 284f854..faed074 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ browser_path = path.dirname(__file__)
 collections_path = path.join(browser_path, 'collections')
 config_path = path.join(browser_path, 'config.json')
 sources_path = path.join(browser_path, 'sources')
+download_logs_path = path.join(browser_path, 'download_logs')
 
 image_extensions = ['.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png', '.gif', '.webp']
 video_extensions = ['.mp4', '.mov', '.avi', '.webm', '.mkv']