Considering the lack of multi-threaded download support in the official huggingface-cli
, and the inadequate error handling in hf_transfer
, this command-line tool smartly utilizes wget
or aria2
for LFS files and git clone
for the rest.
- ⏯️ Resume from breakpoint: You can re-run it or Ctrl+C anytime.
- 🚀 Multi-threaded Download: Utilize multiple threads to speed up the download process.
- 🚫 File Exclusion: Use
--exclude
or--include
to skip or specify files, save time for models with duplicate formats (e.g.,*.bin
or*.safetensors
). - 🔐 Auth Support: For gated models that require Huggingface login, use
--hf_username
and--hf_token
to authenticate. - 🪞 Mirror Site Support: Set up with
HF_ENDPOINT
environment variable.