Image History Loader

Image History Loader gives you a dropdown of images you've recently loaded through the WAS batch loader, so you can grab one back without hunting through folders. It's a small quality-of-life node: WAS keeps a running history of the files that passed through Load Image Batch, and this node lets you reach back into that list and re-load any of them.

Think of it as recent-files for your image inputs. If you've been cycling through a folder and want to jump back to "that one from a few runs ago," it's right there in a menu instead of you fishing for the filename.

How it works

Per the README, it "load[s] images from history based on the Load Image Batch node," and you can cap how many entries it keeps in the config file. So the history is populated by your batch-loading activity, and this node surfaces that list as a selectable input. Pick an entry, get that image back as an IMAGE output.

There's one honest quirk the README flags directly: it requires a restart to show the last session's files. So images you loaded in a previous ComfyUI session won't appear in the dropdown until you restart. Within the current session the history builds up as you go; across sessions it needs the restart to catch up. Slightly awkward, but it's documented behavior, not a bug you did.

Inputs and outputs that matter

The input that matters is the history selection - the dropdown of remembered images. The output is a standard IMAGE, which wires into whatever you'd do with any loaded image: encode it, preprocess it, upscale it.

The max-history count lives in the WAS config file (was_suite_config.json) rather than on the node face, so if you want a deeper history, that's where you bump it.

How to install it

ComfyUI Manager: search was-node-suite-comfyui, install, restart. Manually:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/WASasquatch/was-node-suite-comfyui

then install the pack's requirements.txt in your ComfyUI venv and restart. No models - it's reading files it already knows about.

Common issues & troubleshooting

The dropdown is empty or missing recent files. The big one: last session's files only show after a restart. Restart ComfyUI and they'll populate. Also, the history is fed by the WAS Load Image Batch node - if you've only ever used the core Load Image node, there's nothing for this to remember.

I want more entries in the history. Edit the max-history value in was_suite_config.json (in the pack folder) and restart. The default keeps a limited window.

Do I need this? It's convenience, not capability - it doesn't do anything you couldn't do by browsing to the file. If you work through folders of references a lot it saves clicks; if you don't, skip it. And don't pull in the entire WAS Node Suite for this one small helper.

Whole pack won't import after a ComfyUI update. The standard WAS Node Suite story - it downgrades some packages for older modules and a ComfyUI bump can break the import. Re-run the pack's requirements against the activated venv, or install.bat. Maintenance-only since late 2023.