# Can I use pkg protocol to download artifacts manually?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-use-pkg-protocol-to-download-artifacts-manually/68311>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** pkg, artifacts\
**Created:** [September 17, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-use-pkg-protocol-to-download-artifacts-manually/68311 "2021-09-17T06:28:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-use-pkg-protocol-to-download-artifacts-manually/68311/1 "2021-09-17T06:28:04Z")

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Julia now installs artifacts very quickly, with the help of pkg protocol. But if I want to install artifacts manually instead of intalling JLL wrappers, e.g. install an artifact as a build dependency (Clang.jl uses this to get multiple versions of GCC toolchain), pkg still goes to `raw.github.usercontent` to download it, which very slow in China. Can I do this with pkg protocol? I checked Pkg.jl and failed to find some internal API that does this.