Load Image from HTTP URL — ComfyUI Custom Node

A ComfyUI custom node that loads images directly from HTTP/HTTPS URLs, with automatic EXIF orientation correction.

Features

• Fetch images from any public HTTP/HTTPS URL
• Automatic EXIF orientation handling (all 8 orientation tag values)
• Outputs separate image and alpha mask tensors
• Outputs image width and height as integers for downstream use

Installation

Clone this repository into your ComfyUI custom_nodes directory:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/renderforest/load-image-comfy.git

No additional dependencies are required beyond what ComfyUI already provides (torch, numpy, Pillow).

Node Reference

Load Image from HTTP URL

Category	image
Node name	LoadImageFromHttpURLNorm

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
image_url	STRING	Full HTTP or HTTPS URL pointing to an image

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
image	IMAGE	RGB tensor (1, H, W, 3) with values in [0, 1]
mask	MASK	Alpha mask tensor (1, H, W) — inverted alpha channel (opaque = 0, transparent = 1). Fully opaque if the source has no alpha.
width	INT	Image width in pixels (after EXIF transpose)
height	INT	Image height in pixels (after EXIF transpose)

License

MIT