Is it possible to loadModels in NodeJS Environment from a URL ?

[SM-47]

Hello,

I am trying to loadmodels from the following url : https://github.com/vladmandic/face-api/tree/master/model. Here is my code for the same :

const faceapi = require("@vladmandic/face-api/dist/face-api.node.js");

await faceapi.nets.ssdMobilenetv1.loadFromUri('https://github.com/vladmandic/face-api/blob/master/model');
await faceapi.nets.faceLandmark68Net.loadFromUri('https://github.com/vladmandic/face-api/blob/master/model');
await faceapi.nets.faceRecognitionNet.loadFromUri('https://github.com/vladmandic/face-api/blob/master/model');

But I am getting the following error :

TypeError: e is not a function
    at xt (D:\Others\Demo\node_modules\@vladmandic\face-api\dist\face-api.node.js:7:26503)
    at ro (D:\Others\Demo\node_modules\@vladmandic\face-api\dist\face-api.node.js:7:26876)
    at oo (D:\Others\Demo\node_modules\@vladmandic\face-api\dist\face-api.node.js:7:28012)
    at St.loadFromUri (D:\Others\Demo\node_modules\@vladmandic\face-api\dist\face-api.node.js:7:29643)
    at loadModel (D:\Others\Demo\app.js:36:37)
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\Others\Demo\app.js:24:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)

Is it possible to loadModels in NodeJS Environment from a URL ?
If Yes, is there something wrong which I am doing to load the models? Any help will be grateful. Thanks.

[vladmandic]

sure you can, but...

• you're trying to load from a GitHub URL which is NOT a generic web server - you cannot download models like that
  (if you try to download that model yourself using browser, you'll see you don't get binaries, you get a web page result)
  try loading from a CDN using URL https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@vladmandic/[email protected]/model/
• depending on version of nodejs, it may or may not have a built-in http fetch function
  • nodejs v14.x does not have fetch soi you need to provide fetch function - see section on monkey-patch how to do that
  • nodejs v16.x has fetch built-in but its disabled by default. you can either follow same procedure or enable it
  • nodejs v18.x has fetch built-in and it just works