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Add YOLOv9 weights URL to download function
RizwanMunawar Nov 2, 2025
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Enhance README with YOLOv8 and YOLOv9 support
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[![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/RizwanMunawar/yolov7-object-tracking/blob/main/notebooks/yolov7-object-tracking.ipynb) [![Open in Kaggle](https://kaggle.com/static/images/open-in-kaggle.svg)](https://kaggle.com/kernels/welcome?src=https://colab.research.google.com/github/RizwanMunawar/yolov7-object-tracking/blob/main/notebooks/yolov7-object-tracking.ipynb) [![Open in SageMaker Studio Lab](https://studiolab.sagemaker.aws/studiolab.svg)](https://studiolab.sagemaker.aws/import/github/RizwanMunawar/yolov7-object-tracking/blob/main/notebooks/yolov7-object-tracking.ipynb) <a href="https://deepwiki.com/RizwanMunawar/yolov7-object-tracking"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Repo-DeepWiki-blue.svg?logo=data:image/png;base64,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" alt="YOLOv7-object-tracking DeepWiki"></a>
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💥 **Ultralytics YOLOv8** support added `python detect.py --weights yolov8n.pt`
- ⭐ **Ultralytics YOLOv8** support added `python detect.py --weights yolov8n.pt` (01/11/2025)
- ⭐ **YOLOv9** support added `python detect.py --weights yolov9-t-converted.pt` (03/11/2025)

🔥🔥🔥 **YOLOv9, YOLOv10, YOLO11, YOLO12, YOLO13** support coming soon :)
🚀 **YOLOv10, YOLO11, YOLO12, YOLO13** support coming soon :)

### How to Run the Code

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# Pre-trained weights for YoloV7 model and demo video URL's/
WEIGHTS_URL = "https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7.pt" # ?dl=1"
YOLOv8_WEIGHTS_URL = "https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8n.pt"
YOLOv9_WEIGHTS_URL = "https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-t-converted.pt"
VIDEO_URL = "https://github.com/RizwanMunawar/yolov7-object-tracking/releases/download/yolov7-object-tracking/demo.mp4"


def download(dest_path, url=None, file_name=None):
""" Download model weights to a destination path from a given url. """
url = url if url is not None else (
YOLOv8_WEIGHTS_URL if file_name and file_name.startswith("yolov8") else WEIGHTS_URL)
YOLOv8_WEIGHTS_URL if file_name and file_name.startswith("yolov8") else
YOLOv9_WEIGHTS_URL if file_name and file_name.startswith("yolov9") else
WEIGHTS_URL
)
resp = requests.get(url, stream=True)

os.makedirs(dest_path, exist_ok=True)
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