Hugging Face or Civitai Model Download Issues?

[regal radish]

Lots of people are having issues with Civitai Model Download or Hugging Face download, this is to answer the question:

1. If the download is slow, HF or Civitai could be the bottleneck, you can run this here to see:
   https://discord.com/channels/912829806415085598/1207175605255147571

2. General tips on transfering files if curious:
   https://github.com/justinwlin/Runpod-Tips-and-Tricks/tree/main/SSH On Runpod

3. HF has their own CLI tool to download models, use it as they have optimized it a lot:
   https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/en/guides/download

https://github.com/huggingface/hf_transfer

4. Civitai now is often requiring people to authenticate:

See if below solves your issue
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/19f8wdm/need_help_with_civitai_model_download/

Also! Civitai as the reddit post states has a GIthub on their REST API Reference:
https://github.com/civitai/civitai/wiki/REST-API-Reference

Hugging Face or Civitai Model Download Issues?

[zinc wind]

Thanks

[zinc wind]

Hi @justin,
Really sorry. It seems I am unable to figure out things here. The steps are for Google Colab but I am using RunPod.
It appears, the whole internet is unaware of RunPod. Such a pity!

[shadow surge]

@quaint zephyr this might be good docs content, especially the civitai login requirement

[regal radish]

Which part is for Google Collab? Just FYI when you run Runpod with the official template, or a variation, most of them should have jupyter notebook installed still. All Google Collab is doing is executing either terminal commands ![command] or running python code, which you can do in terminal, or you can execute in jupyter notebook cell by cell too. They are very similar

[zinc wind]

Yeah, I know how to use SD in RunPod. I open Jupyter Terminal, go to the models folder and download CIVITAI model into it directly using the curl -O -J -L followed by the dowload link in command.

But now, that command doesn't seem to work

Even for my own Google Drive models, I used gdown and the link. Now, even that doesn't work.

[regal radish]

Gdown you might need to update it, there were some breaking changes by google

[zinc wind]

I think this issue has happened due to the recent CIVITAI update and we need a new command to download models from Civitai directly into RunPod.

For now, I am keeping aside my Google Drive. Not being able to download CIVITAI models is a thing that I can't digest.

[regal radish]

https://civitai.com/api/download/models/%7BmodelVersionId%7D?token={api_key} Your civitai command has your API key? Just to confirm

Honestly I don't use civitai so I cannot say, just reflecting what I've heard

[zinc wind]

I have the API key. But what's the full command?

[regal radish]

As the reddit thread I linked says:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/19f8wdm/comment/ko92bzg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

wget -P {your local model directory, not including a file name} -q --show-progress --content-disposition https://civitai.com/api/download/models/{modelVersionId from the model download link}?token={your api key from civitai user settings}

-P puts it in the right folder
-q suppresses useless console output
--show-progress shows progress as console output
--content-disposition names the file correctly (otherwise you'll need to rename it to after downloading)

Also as the Civitai API Officially says, you can pass it down in the authorization header too:
https://github.com/civitai/civitai/wiki/REST-API-Reference

[zinc wind]

That's why I didn't follow the above guy's example.

Not a proper way to explain the command. Should have given an example.

Anyways. I think I will have to keep trying.