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About Civitai Helper2: Model Info Helper

Civitai Helper 2 will be renamed to ModelInfo Helper. It is under development, you can watch its UI demo video to see how it gonna look like:
YouTube

Notice

This extension now is very stable and works well for many people. If you have an issue, check console log window's detail and read common issue part

If you want to claim it doesn't work, check this first: Claim Wall

Civitai Helper

Stable Diffusion Webui Extension for Civitai, to handle your models much more easily.

Civitai: Civitai Url

Features

Scans all models to download model information and preview images from Civitai.
Link local model to a civitai model by civitai model's url
Download a model(with info+preview) by Civitai Url into SD's model folder or subfolder.
Downloading can resume at break-point, which is good for large file.
Checking all your local model's new version from Civitai
Download a new version directly into SD model folder (with info+preview)
Modified Built-in "Extra Network" cards, to add the following buttons on each card:
- 🖼️: Modified "replace preview" text into this icon
- 🌐: Open this model's Civitai url in a new tab
- 💡: Add this model's trigger words to prompt
- 🏷️: Use this model's preview image's prompt
Above buttons support thumbnail mode of Extra Network
Option to always show additional buttons, to work with touchscreen.

Install

Go to SD webui's extension tab, go to Install from url sub-tab. Copy this project's url into it, click install.

Alternatively, download this project as a zip file, and unzip it to Your SD webui folder/extensions.

Everytime you install or update this extension, you need to shutdown SD Webui and Relaunch it. Just "Reload UI" won't work for this extension.

Done.

How to Use

Update Your SD Webui

This extension need to get extra network's cards id. Which is added since 2023-02-06.
If your SD webui is an earlier version, you need to update it!

Scanning Models

Go to extension tab "Civitai Helper". There is a button called "Scan model".

Click it and the extension will scan all your models to generate SHA256 hashes, using them to retreive model information and preview images from Civitai.

Scanning takes time, just wait it finish

For each model, it will create a json file to save all model info from Civitai. This model info file will be "Your_model_name.civitai.info" in your model folder.

If a model info file already exists, it will be skipped. If a model cannot be found in Civitai, it will create an empty model info file, so the model won't be scanned twice.

Adding New Models

When you have some new models, just click scan button again, to get new model's information and preview images. It won't scan the same model twice.

Model Card

(Use this only after scanning finished)
Open SD webui's build-in "Extra Network" tab, to show model cards.

Move your mouse on to the bottom of a model card. It will show 4 icon buttons:

🖼: Replace preview (a build-in button, modified from text to icon)
🌐: Open this model's Civitai url in a new tab
💡: Add this model's trigger words to prompt
🏷: Use this model's preview image's prompt

If these additional buttons are not there, click the Refresh Civitai Helper button to bring them back.

Everytime after Extra Network tab refreshed, it will remove all these additional buttons. So, you need to click Refresh Civitai Helper button to bring them back.

Thumbnail Mode

Additional buttons work on thumbnail too, but due to SD webui's CSS issue, for now, they must be always displayed on thumbnail or don't display at all.

Download

To download a model by Civitai Model Page's Url, you need 3 steps:

Fill url, click button to get model info
It will show model name and type automatically. Just choose sub-folder and model version
Click download.

Detail will be displayed on console log, with a progress bar.
Downloading can resume from break-point, so no fear for large file.

Checking Model's New Version

You can checking your local model's new version from civitai by model types. You can select multiple model types.

The checking process has a "1 second delay" after each model's new version checking request. So it is a little slow.

This is to protect Civitai from issue like DDos from this extension. Some cloud service provider has a rule as "no more than 1 API request in a second for free user". Civitai doesn't have this rule yet, but we still need to protect it. There is no good for us if it is down.

After checking process done, it will display all new version's information on UI.

There are 3 urls for each new version.

First one is model's civitai page.
Second one is new version's download url.
Third one is a button to download it into your SD's model folder with python.
With this one, output information is on "Download Model" section's log and console log. One task at a time.

Get Model Info By Url

This is used to force a local model links to a Civitai model. For example, you converted a model's format or pruned it. Then it can not be found on civitai when scanning.

In that case, if you still want to link it to a civitai model. You can use this funcion.

Choose this model from list, then offer a civitai model page's url.

After clicking button, extension will download that civitai model's info and preview image for the local file you picked.

Proxy

If you are updating to new version, you need to re-lanuch SD webui before using it.

Proxy textbox is at the bottom of extension tab.

Each time you fill or clear a proxy value, you need to save setting, and Re-load UI with setting tab's reload button.

Then all requests to civitai will use the proxy.

For some sock5 proxy, need to be used as "socks5h://xxxxx".

Other Setting

The Save Setting button, will save both "Scan Model"'s setting and other setting.

"Always Display Button" is good for touch screen.
"Show Buttons on Thumb Mode" will turn on/off additional Buttons on thumbnail.

Preview Image

Extra network uses both model_file.png and model_file.preview.png as preview image. But model_file.png has higher priority, because it is created by yourself.

When you don't have the higher priority one, it will use the other automatically.

Prompt

When you click the button "Use prompt from preview image", it does not use the prompt from your own preview image. It uses the one from civitai's preview image.

On civitai, a model's preview images may not has prompt. This extension will check this model's all civitai preview images' information and use the first one has prompt in it.

SHA256

To create a file SHA256, it need to read the whole file to generate a hash code. It gonna be slow for large files.

Also, extension uses Memory Optimized SHA256, which won't stuck your system and works with colab.

There are 2 cases this hash code can not find the model on civitai:

Some old models, which do not have SHA256 code on civitai.
The model's owner changed file on civitai, but does not change version name and description. So, the file on civitai is actually not the one on your manchine.

In these cases, you can always link a model to civitai by filling its URL in this extension.

Feature Request

No new feature for v1.x after v1.5. All new feature will go to 2.x.

2.x will focus on custom model information and may change name to "Model Info Helper", because it is not just focus on Civitai anymore.

From v1.5, v1.x goes into maintenance phase.

Enjoy!

Common Issue

4 Buttons on card didn't show

Localization

There was a Localization issue if you are not using English version of SD webui. This is fixed in the latest version of this extension. Bilingual localization extension is supported by PR since v1.6.1.1.

Using cloud based localization extension

Turn off cloud based localization extension, use normal localization extension.

Other case

First of all, make sure you clicked "Refresh Civitai Helper" button.

If issue is still there, then only reason is you are not using the latest SD webui. So, Make sure you updated it.

Your update could be failed if you have modified SD webui's file. You need to check git command's console log to make sure it is updated.

In many cases, git will just refuse to update and tell you there are some conflicts need you to handle manually. If you don't check the consloe log, you will think your SD webui is updated, but it is not.

Request, Scan or Get model info failed

This extension is stable. So, the reason for this most likely is your internet connection to Civitai API service.

Civitai is not as stable as those rich websites, it can be down or refuse your API connection.

Civitai has a connection pool setting. Basicly, it's a max connection number that civitai can have at the same time. So, if there are already too manny connections on civitai, it will refuse your API connection.

In those cases, the only thing you can do is just wait a while then try again.

Get Wrong model info and preview images from civitai

A bad news is, some models are saved with a wrong sha256 in civitai's database. Check here for more detail:
https://github.com/civitai/civitai/issues/426

So, for those models, this extension can not get the right model info or preview images.

In this case, you have to remove the model info file and get the right model info by a civitai url on this extension's tab page.

Also, you can report those models with wrong sha256 to civitai at following page:
https://discord.com/channels/1037799583784370196/1096271712959615100/1096271712959615100

Please report that model to civitai, so they can fix it.

Scanning fail when using colab

First of, search your error message with google. Most likely, it will be a colab issue.

If you are sure it is a out of memory issue when scanning models, and you are using this extension's latest version, then there is nothing we can do.

Since v1.5.5, we've already optimized the SHA256 function to the top. So the only 2 choices for you are:

try again
or use a pro account of colab.

Change Log

v1.6.4

Add "Download All files" checkbox for downloading model section. Uncheck means only download 1 file.

v1.6.3

Support downloading multiple files, not avaiable when checking new version.

v1.6.2.1

when parsing civitai url, remove query string by PR

v1.6.2

When downloading, re-name file if file already exists

v1.6.1.1

Support bilingual localization extension by PR

v1.6.1

Fix Localization issue for 4 addtional buttons on cards. (Forgot that again...)

v1.6.0

Fix some UI issues to work with gradio 3.23.0
Support Proxy when connecting to civitai. Check document for detail.
check realpath when opening file, to fix error when using junction
Fix multiple addtional buttons issue after switching tabs.

v1.5.7

Fix Localization issue for 4 addtional buttons on cards

v1.5.6

update error msg when can not connect to civitai API service
update thumb mode for SD webui new version's metadata button

v1.5.5

update SHA256 function, now it just use the code from pip

v1.5.4

set sys.stdout to utf-8
Add default header for requests to prevent from being blocked by civitai.
merge other v1.5.x change log to v1.5.4
When downloading a model by url, check if target model version is already existed in user selected sub-folder.
Support scanning only selected model types.
Force TI scanning delay 1 second to prevent from civitai treating this extension's requests as attacking.

v1.5.0

Download a model by Civitai model page's url
Resume downloading from break-point
Download new version into SD Webui's model folder
Addtional button now works on thumbnail mode
Option to always show addtion button, for touch screen.

v1.4.2

ignore .vae file in model folder when scanning

v1.4.1

When checking new versions, also searching and ignore already existed ones.
Add version number to the bottom of this extension's tab

v1.4

Support checking model's new version, display the result in UI and offer download url
Remove addintional sub tabs on extension tab. make ui simpler.

v1.3

Open url at client side
Link selected model to civitai by url or model id
Save and load extension setting to file
Show button action's output to UI
Code refactoring

v1.2.1

Add more error checking to work with different versions of SD webui.

v1.2

Support customer model folder
Support readable model info file
Support download preview image with max size
Remove card buttons when extra network is in thumbnail mode

v1.1

Support subfolders
Check if refresh is needed when clicking "Refresh Civitai Helper"
Add space when adding trigger words
Add memory Optimized sha256 as an option