ollama-admin-ui is a web application that makes it easy to download and delete models on your local ollama docker installation using your web browser.

DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with the ollama project. I made this for fun.

• see what models are available for download
• search model names, descriptions, and tags
• download desired models
• remove unwanted models

• provides links back to ollama.com for individual models, making it easy to get additional information from the official source.
• uses the same visual styling engine (Tailwindcss) and themes that ollama.com uses, making ollama-admin-ui visually appealing and coherent. Switching between ollama.com and ollama-admin-ui is seamless.
• provides an exportable ollama model/tag library manifest in json.

DISCLAIMER: ollama-admin-ui provides no authentication mechanisms and makes no guarantees about security. You probably shouldn't use it in production.

• I wanted something to help me manage the models on my local ollama installation without having to run curl commands or a python script and I wasn't aware of a similar project.
• I recently read the hypermedia systems book, and was inspired to make a hypermedia-based web application.
• I love the ollama project and wanted to make something complimentary.

git clone the project...
cd ollama-admin-ui
docker compose build
docker compose up

Access at http://localhost:8001/

Use the search box to search for models and tags.

Tip: search for "downloaded" to see which models/tags are already downloaded.

• Hover over the model tag and click the desired tag.
• Once the model is finished downloading, it will turn green.
• Click a green model tag to be prompted to delete the downloaded model.

• Click the model name to be taken to the model page at ollama.com

• click the "Refresh Model Catalog" button to refresh the list of models and tags with information from ollama.com

If you're a developer, the utility class wollama, provided by ollama-admin-ui source code can be used to programmatically access the model/tag catalog via the Catalog object. The Catalog object can also export the ollama model/tag library as JSON.

from wollama.wollama import (
    Catalog,
    ModelTag,
    ModelTagCollection,
    OllamaInfo,
    OllamaRegistry,
)

# Initialize the OllamaRegistry client to read the remote ollama library

oregistry = OllamaRegistry()

# The OllamaRegistry should already have a version of the model/tag catalog cached.
if oregistry:
    try:
        oregistry.load_from_cache()
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Could not load oregistry catalog from cache...:\n{e}")
        try:
            oregistry.refresh()
        except:
            print("Could not refresh the remote catalog from the web!")

catalog = oregistry.catalog

# Write the catalog to a JSON

catalog.export_catalog("/path/to/file.json")

• It is a known issue that ollama does not publish a complete manifest of model and tag information for easy download.
  • ollama/ollama#286
  • ollama/ollama#10174
  • ollama/ollama#10046
• As a result, ollama-admin-ui must scrape ollama.com for model information to refresh the library. To mitigate overloading of the servers, ollama-admin-ui comes with a library that is preloaded with information.
• The refresh functionality is rate-limited to protect ollama.com's servers, making a complete library refresh slow. As the ollama team publishes a way to pull library information without web-scrapping, this part of the application can be updated to use that method instead.

• https://github.com/zeitlings/alfred-ollama
• https://github.com/lemonit-eric-mao/ollama-web-management
• https://github.com/imoize/plasmoid-ollamacontrol

• uv
• tailwindcss cli

uv sync

uv run main.py

• Use Tailwindcss utility classes in html.
• Generate new css using tailwindcss cli.

tailwindcss --watch -i ./app/static/css/input.css -o ./app/static/css/output.css

• Use icons from heroicons

• ollama
• Hypermedia, HTMX, Hyperscript
• FastAPI
• Jinja
• pyproject.toml
• uv