Downloading custom github nodes onto Docker

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Darki•11/7/25, 2:42 PM

TLDR:

I have a github repos: https://github.com/user/NameOfTheCustomNodes.git

This format installs properly when a node is present on comfy Registry : RUN comfy node install --exit-on-fail ComfyUI-GGUF@1.1.5

What to do if they are not on comfy Registry?

Dj•11/7/25, 5:41 PM

I think comfy node installcomfy node install takes a url, but let me check.

Dj•11/7/25, 5:44 PM

It looks like it supports anything pippip supports, so try git+https://github.com...git+https://github.com...

DDj It looks like it supports anything `pip` supports, so try `git+https://github.co...

Darki•11/7/25, 5:50 PM

yup that's the kicker, i did try it , it "downloaded the nodes" but seemed to not download the (requirements.txt) rendering the nodes completely useless and giving out " Input not found model.safetensors" even though the model was installed correctly

Darki•11/7/25, 5:50 PM

i spent like 4 hours debugging just to come out to this conclusion

Dj•11/7/25, 5:50 PM

I just had the thing open, it should be doing both :thinkMan:

Dj•11/7/25, 5:50 PM

One moment

Dj•11/7/25, 5:51 PM

This repo is super confusing btw im shocked this thing works

Dj•11/7/25, 5:51 PM

(any of comfy-cli)

DDj (any of comfy-cli)

Darki•11/7/25, 5:52 PM

RUN comfy node install --exit-on-fail git+https://github.com/Author/reponame.git

Darki•11/7/25, 5:53 PM

This is what i was running

Darki•11/7/25, 5:53 PM

maybe its a wrong command

Darki•11/7/25, 5:53 PM

The nodes are 100% usable and working on a normal pod install with gitclone + pip install req.txt

Dj•11/7/25, 5:55 PM

I think somewhere along the line because you're giving it an argument it's ignoring requirements.txt

Dj•11/7/25, 5:55 PM

You should be able to do comfy node installcomfy node install then comfy node install git+...comfy node install git+...

DDj You should be able to do `comfy node install` then `comfy node install git+...`

Darki•11/7/25, 5:55 PM

Darki•11/7/25, 5:55 PM

this is my whole docker

Darki•11/7/25, 5:56 PM

its pretty crystal clear if you ask me

Darki•11/7/25, 5:56 PM

request is a simple input,workflow (apiworkflow)

Dj•11/7/25, 5:56 PM

I can't tell why it's being obliterated, it's not your fault I know that

Dj•11/7/25, 5:56 PM

I think if you just pip install -r requirements.txtpip install -r requirements.txt at the end it should be happy again?

Darki•11/7/25, 5:57 PM

This is just an educated guess on what's happening tho

Dj•11/7/25, 5:57 PM

I've been combing through the comfy-cli repo it's not a very "intelligent" installation process haha

Dj•11/7/25, 5:57 PM

But also comfy node install takes multiple arguments

Dj•11/7/25, 5:57 PM

comfy node install --exit-on-fail name name name namecomfy node install --exit-on-fail name name name name

Darki•11/7/25, 5:58 PM

IF pip install was the problem then -

cd /workspace/ComfyUI/custom_nodes/NameOfTheNode pip install -r requirements.txt
and then over over over...

Darki•11/7/25, 5:59 PM

because then docker wouldn't know which requirements.txt to install right? It wouldn't find the files on its own i guess?

Darki•11/7/25, 6:00 PM

Truth is im completely clueless so try to make ur own conlusion because i could be 100% wrong

Darki•11/7/25, 6:06 PM

@tim Maybe you could help us figure out what's going on

DDj `comfy node install --exit-on-fail name name name name`

Darki•11/7/25, 6:29 PM

So what you think i should try?

Dj•11/7/25, 6:33 PM

I'm a little out of my element with the internals of Comfy, let me see if I can track it down in their Discord or on GitHub. Just give me a little time...

Dj•11/7/25, 6:38 PM

Without the build logs I can really only guess, but comfy-cli should always be installing the deps of each node it installs.

It'll log something like:
Start downloading the node...
Start extracting the node...

Then (for some reason) it opens the

requirements.txt

requirements.txt

file and installs each dependency lime by line. If that doesn't exist, it tries to run install.pyinstall.py at the top of the repo.

DDj Without the build logs I can really only guess, but comfy-cli should always be i...

Darki•11/7/25, 8:03 PM

Whats the solution then?

Downloading custom github nodes onto Docker

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