Load CLIP (Online)

Load CLIP (Online) is the pack's wrapper around ComfyUI's separate text-encoder loading. You pick a CLIP model from the catalog, the node downloads it into your models/clip folder, and out pops a CLIP object you feed to a text encoder. Same shared machinery as every other node in this pack: catalog from DoubTech's API, on-demand download, no API key.

The honest news first: the CLIP catalog is currently empty. I checked the live API (api.aiart.doubtech.com/comfyui/clip) and it returns an empty object. So right now the clip_name dropdown has nothing in it and the node can't actually load anything. It's not broken code - the pack's categories are as live as whatever DoubTech is hosting, and this one just has no entries today. If you're looking at an empty dropdown, that's why.

When you'd use it anyway

The concept it wraps is real, even if the catalog is bare. A CLIP loader matters when your checkpoint doesn't carry a text encoder you want to use. SDXL workflows are the classic case: the SDXL base checkpoint expects a separate CLIP (the big OpenCLIP ViT-bigG text encoder), which is why stock ComfyUI splits "Load Checkpoint" from "Load CLIP" in SDXL-era setups. If you're swapping text encoders around, or running a checkpoint that ships without one, a standalone CLIP loader is the tool.

The one input, the one output

clip_name is the only input - a dropdown populated from the catalog. The single output is CLIP, which wires into CLIP Text Encode (Prompt) the same way the CLIP output of a checkpoint loader does. The node loads with ComfyUI's stock sd.load_clip, so it inherits whatever embedding support your install has - embeddings resolve from your models/embeddings folder as usual.

Install

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/yolanother/DTAIComfyLoaders

or search "DTAIComfyLoaders" ("Comfy UI Online Loaders") in ComfyUI Manager, then restart. Only dependency is requests.

Where people get burned

• Empty dropdown = empty catalog. Don't spend an hour reinstalling. The list is fetched from DoubTech's server in a background thread at startup; if it's empty it's because there are no entries right now, and there's no refresh button. Check https://api.aiart.doubtech.com/comfyui/clip in a browser to confirm the server side.
• First-run download. If the catalog ever gains entries, the first use pulls the file into models/clip with no progress bar.
• Dropbox HTML trap. Catalog files that live on Dropbox can come back as an HTML bot-check page to scripted requests; a "downloaded" CLIP that fails to load is usually a few-KB HTML file, not the real encoder.

This is the thinnest node in the pack - one input, one output, and today nothing behind it. If you actually need a standalone text encoder, stock ComfyUI's CLIPLoader against a file you download yourself will get you there without the pack. Keep this one on the list in case DoubTech restocks.