diff --git a/invokeai/app/api/routers/model_manager.py b/invokeai/app/api/routers/model_manager.py
index b1221f7a34..99f00423c6 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
@@ -502,6 +502,133 @@ async def install_model(
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="HuggingFace repo_id to install"),
+) -> HTMLResponse:
+ """Install a Hugging Face model using a string identifier."""
+
+ def generate_html(title: str, heading: str, repo_id: str, is_error: bool, message: str | None = "") -> str:
+ if message:
+ message = f"{message}
"
+ title_class = "error" if is_error else "success"
+ return f"""
+
+
+
+ {title}
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
{heading}
+ {message}
+
Repo ID: {repo_id}
+
+