# How can I load models from any remote url
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**Author:**  [@karkawal](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fkarkawal)%5C
**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-load-models-from-any-remote-url%2F9452%2F1 "2021-08-24T15:54:57Z")
Hi,
I want to set up a http file server (simples case would be http localhost) that will contain my models or simply fork a github repository with pretrained models. I see that when loading a pretrained model a `transformers` or `sentence-transformers` libraries try to get files from [huggingface.co](http://huggingface.co) by default. Is there a way to change it and load e.g. from [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000) without modifying the insides of the library? E.g. i tried to simply put the url in `pt_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained('http://localhost:8000')`, but it failed to work. I also tried to use `mirror` parameter with adding my address to `PRESET_MIRROR_DICT` in configuration\_utils.py, but that is already modification that I want to avoid. It didn’t work besides.
Is there any proper way to do so?
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**Author:**  [@zirui3](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fzirui3)%5C
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 1:28am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-load-models-from-any-remote-url%2F9452%2F2 "2021-08-25T01:28:31Z")
you can try to paas your `http server` as param like this:
```auto
proxies = {"http": "http://localhost:8000"}
mode = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(proxies)
```
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**Author:**  [@karkawal](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fkarkawal)%5C
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 6:34am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-load-models-from-any-remote-url%2F9452%2F3 "2021-08-25T06:34:23Z")
This seems to work just fine, thank you!
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**Author:**  [@karkawal](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fkarkawal)%5C
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:56am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-load-models-from-any-remote-url%2F9452%2F4 "2021-08-26T11:56:15Z")
Well, not really. Sorry for the false alert, but this doesn’t work. It worked for a while, since the path on the server was the same as the path to model locally, so it just read it from my disk.
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**Author:**  [@zirui3](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fzirui3)%5C
**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 2:55am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-load-models-from-any-remote-url%2F9452%2F5 "2021-08-27T02:55:55Z")
sorry, i misunderstood your question, the transformers library currently dose not seem to support private host, you can look this [issue](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/10654) for reference, and there is a
workround you can try