Reason for Interrogate CLIP .pth being loaded from storage.googleapis.com vs local file?

[jasonmhead]

What is the reason that the Interrogate CLIP .pth is being loaded from storage.googleapis.com vs downloaded to a local file?
Is there a license issue at play that prevents its download? Technical limitation?

[Kilvoctu]

Has anyone got any insight on this? I was playing with this feature today and was wondering the same thing.

[GigsTheCat]

Pretty sure it's a local file and it incorrectly says it's being downloaded for some reason. You can still use it offline without any errors.

[EliEron]

The way the code works is that it can be passed a local file or a URL, if a URL is passed it gets downloaded to a local file, and any further calls uses the local file automatically.

So in reality you are using a local file after the first run, it is not downloading the nearly 900MB model every time you run it.

The reason it is coded like this is that it makes it simple to use, you don't need to worry if the user has the model already or not, if they don't it gets downloaded and if they do the local file is used automatically.