diff --git a/invokeai/app/api/routers/model_manager.py b/invokeai/app/api/routers/model_manager.py
index b1221f7a34..01590b21be 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/api/routers/model_manager.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/api/routers/model_manager.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from copy import deepcopy
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Type
from fastapi import Body, Path, Query, Response, UploadFile
-from fastapi.responses import FileResponse
+from fastapi.responses import FileResponse, HTMLResponse
from fastapi.routing import APIRouter
from PIL import Image
from pydantic import AnyHttpUrl, BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field
@@ -501,6 +501,80 @@ async def install_model(
raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail=str(e))
return result
+@model_manager_router.get(
+ "/install/huggingface",
+ operation_id="install_hugging_face_model",
+ responses={
+ 201: {"description": "The model is being installed"},
+ 400: {"description": "Bad request"},
+ 409: {"description": "There is already a model corresponding to this path or repo_id"},
+ },
+ status_code=201,
+ response_class=HTMLResponse
+)
+async def install_hugging_face_model(
+ source: str = Query(description="Hugging Face repo_id to install"),
+) -> HTMLResponse:
+ """Install a Hugging Face model using a string identifier."""
+
+ def generate_html(message: str) -> str:
+ return f"""
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ """
+
+ try:
+ metadata = HuggingFaceMetadataFetch().from_id(source)
+ assert isinstance(metadata, ModelMetadataWithFiles)
+ message = "Your Hugging Face model is installing now. You can close this tab and check the Model Manager for installation progress."
+ except UnknownMetadataException:
+ message = "No HuggingFace repository found with that repo id."
+ return HTMLResponse(content=generate_html(message), status_code=400)
+
+ logger = ApiDependencies.invoker.services.logger
+
+ try:
+ installer = ApiDependencies.invoker.services.model_manager.install
+
+ if metadata.is_diffusers:
+ installer.heuristic_import(
+ source=source,
+ inplace=False,
+ )
+ elif metadata.ckpt_urls is not None and len(metadata.ckpt_urls) == 1:
+ installer.heuristic_import(
+ source=str(metadata.ckpt_urls[0]),
+ inplace=False,
+ )
+ else:
+ message = "This HuggingFace repo has multiple models. Please use the Model Manager to install this."
+ except Exception as e:
+ logger.error(str(e))
+ message = "There was an error with installing this model. Please use the Model Manager to install this."
+
+ return HTMLResponse(content=generate_html(message), status_code=201)
+
@model_manager_router.get(
"/install",