ComfyUI Node

Load Lora Name

A LoRA filename, without the LoRA attached

By hben35096·Created 2 years ago·Updated 12 months ago· 7
Load Lora Name
    • STRING
    lora_name

    Last of the six name-pickers, and it works the same way as the rest: pick a LoRA from the standard dropdown, get the filename back as a STRING. No weights get applied to a model, no strength gets set - this node doesn't touch your model at all.

    Where this differs from the LoRA loader you actually use

    Don't confuse this with a real LoRA loader - like the stock LoraLoader, or the widely-used rgthree Power Lora Loader, which stacks multiple LoRAs with per-entry strength toggles and can even fetch trigger words for you. Those nodes take a model and CLIP in, apply the LoRA's weight delta, and pass a modified model and CLIP back out. This node does none of that. It has no model input and no strength slider - it's purely a name-picker, useful when some other part of your graph needs to know which LoRA file you selected, as text, without actually applying it.

    The clearest case is the one the pack's own README points to: this family of nodes exists as secondary support for building XY Plot comparison grids with qq-nodes-comfyui. Comparing the same prompt and seed across three or four LoRAs - a classic "which style checkpoint actually looks best" grid - needs each column's LoRA filename to be exact, and picking from a dropdown guarantees that in a way typing never quite does. Feed the string into your grid's axis labels, or into a filename/caption so a saved comparison sheet documents which LoRA made which column.

    How it works

    The lora_name field is a dropdown populated dynamically from your LoRA files - the same live scan a real LoRA loader performs - not a fixed built-in list. Pick a file and the node converts the selection to text; nothing gets loaded or applied.

    What to set, what it outputs

    One field: lora_name, populated from whatever's in your local LoRA folder. The single output is a STRING - tooltip "The LoRA name" - ready for a grid axis, a filename template, or any downstream node that wants the file identified as text.

    Installing it

    ComfyUI Manager: search ComfyUI-ReplenishNodes, install, restart. Or manually:

    cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
    git clone https://github.com/hben35096/ComfyUI-ReplenishNodes
    

    Nothing to download for the node itself.

    Where people get tripped up

    An empty dropdown means ComfyUI hasn't found any files in ComfyUI/models/loras/ (or wherever your extra_model_paths.yaml maps it yet) - drop the LoRA in and restart or refresh.

    And the family-wide trap: this looks like it should plug into a model/CLIP pipeline, but its output is text. It won't connect to a LoraLoader's lora_name widget input - widgets aren't sockets in ComfyUI, so you can't wire a string into one at all, only type or select a value directly in that node. If your goal is to actually apply the LoRA, set it in the real loader; this node is for when the filename itself needs to travel somewhere else in the graph.

    CategoryReplenish/QQNodes

    Inputs (1)

    NameTypeDefaultDescription
    lora_nameCOMBOThe name of the LoRA.

    Outputs (1)

    NameTypeDescription
    STRINGSTRINGThe LoRA name.