# What is the recommended way to use custom collections in AWX

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-recommended-way-to-use-custom-collections-in-awx/34420>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-recommended-way-to-use-custom-collections-in-awx/34420 "2021-01-11T13:06:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stefan\_Coussens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/stefan_coussens/32/8432_2.png) [@Stefan\_Coussens](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stefan_Coussens)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-recommended-way-to-use-custom-collections-in-awx/34420/1 "2021-01-11T13:06:55Z")

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Hi,

In my awx project I have a requirements file for my collections and this works.  
Unfortunately I ran into a bug in the collection. This bug is resolved in a PR and I want to test drive this branch.

How can I do this in a easy way. I think I should edit the requirements file but I haven’t figured this out how to do this.

In the future I would also like to develop my own in house collections.  
What would be the syntax to add a tar.gz on a url or a git repo (with authentication and specified branch) in the requirements file.

kind regards,

Kind regards

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**Author:** ![dsaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@dsaf](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dsaf)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-recommended-way-to-use-custom-collections-in-awx/34420/2 "2021-01-19T16:26:33Z")

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try something like this:

```auto
- name: g...@github.com:ORG/REPO.git,BRANCH

```