ollama-pull is a lightweight alternative to the official ollama pull command.
It aims to increase the speed of pulling from the ollama registry by removing some overheads that might not be necessary for particular use cases. It supports both the HTTP standard library and aria2c download backends for enhanced performance and reliability.
$ export OLLAMA_MODELS=/path/to/your/ollama/models
$ go run github.com/gqgs/ollama-pull/cmd/pull@latest deepseek-r1:1.5b
$ ollama serve
$ ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b
>>> Hello World
<think>
</think>
Hello! How can I assist you today? 😊$ time ollama pull deepseek-r1:7b
pulling manifest
pulling 96c415656d37... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 4.7 GB
pulling 369ca498f347... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 387 B
pulling 6e4c38e1172f... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 1.1 KB
pulling f4d24e9138dd... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 148 B
pulling 40fb844194b2... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 487 B
verifying sha256 digest
writing manifest
success
real 2m40.397s
user 0m0.112s
sys 0m0.131s$ time go run github.com/gqgs/ollama-pull/cmd/pull@latest deepseek-r1:7b
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO downloading model manifest url=https://registry.ollama.ai/v2/library/deepseek-r1/manifests/7b
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO downloading blob blob=sha256:40fb844194b25e429204e5163fb379ab462978a262b86aadd73d8944445c09fd
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO downloading blob blob=sha256:369ca498f347f710d068cbb38bf0b8692dd3fa30f30ca2ff755e211c94768150
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO downloading blob blob=sha256:96c415656d377afbff962f6cdb2394ab092ccbcbaab4b82525bc4ca800fe8a49
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO downloading blob blob=sha256:f4d24e9138dd4603380add165d2b0d970bef471fac194b436ebd50e6147c6588
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO downloading blob blob=sha256:6e4c38e1172f42fdbff13edf9a7a017679fb82b0fde415a3e8b3c31c6ed4a4e4
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO writing blob to disk blob=sha256:6e4c38e1172f42fdbff13edf9a7a017679fb82b0fde415a3e8b3c31c6ed4a4e4
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO writing blob to disk blob=sha256:96c415656d377afbff962f6cdb2394ab092ccbcbaab4b82525bc4ca800fe8a49
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO writing blob to disk blob=sha256:369ca498f347f710d068cbb38bf0b8692dd3fa30f30ca2ff755e211c94768150
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO writing blob to disk blob=sha256:40fb844194b25e429204e5163fb379ab462978a262b86aadd73d8944445c09fd
2025/02/08 17:11:21 INFO writing blob to disk blob=sha256:f4d24e9138dd4603380add165d2b0d970bef471fac194b436ebd50e6147c6588
real 1m25.763s
user 0m2.437s
sys 0m8.887s