How to install extensions w/ command line instead of GUI?

[jasonleekungfu]

Hi! I am working on an Open OnDemand Stable Diffusion app for our HPC clusters. I will need to enable --listen, which disables extension installation in browser. So my goal is to install necessary extensions as admin and offer them to users. Since our Stable Diffusion is containerized, I would much prefer to use command line to install extensions instead of web interface, so that we may have it in recipe for consistency. Is it possible? If so, how? Thank you very much!

PS: I am aware of this thread: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki/Extensions . But it does not appear to be working w/ any extension. For example, one requested extension is controlnet, which requires more dependencies. If there is a command line alternative to the web interface installation, I would much like to use it.

[missionfloyd]

It's just git.

cd extensions
git clone https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet

Dependencies are installed on startup.

[jasonleekungfu]

Oh I see what you mean. I can git clone and then run webui.sh when building the container? I will give a try when I am back in office. Thank you!

[jasonleekungfu]

Following up on this, since we need to use --data-dir to put user data where users can write to, cloning directly to ./stable-diffusion-webui/extensions does not seem to work, as it appears the extensions folder in --data-dir will supersede it? Also I tried putting it under ./stable-diffusion-webui/extensions-builtin, but for some reason it does not work properly. Any workaround you may suggest? Thank you!