diff --git a/trains/storage/helper.py b/trains/storage/helper.py
index 85a8c6ae..9cb5b848 100644
--- a/trains/storage/helper.py
+++ b/trains/storage/helper.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from copy import copy
 from datetime import datetime
 from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
+from tempfile import mktemp
 from time import time
 from types import GeneratorType
 
@@ -215,6 +216,22 @@ class StorageHelper(object):
         cls._helpers[instance_key] = instance
         return instance
 
+    @classmethod
+    def get_local_copy(cls, remote_url):
+        """
+        Download a file from remote URL to a local storage, and return path to local copy,
+
+        :param remote_url: Remote URL. Example: https://example.com/file.jpg s3://bucket/folder/file.mp4 etc.
+        :return: Path to local copy of the downloaded file. None if error occurred.
+        """
+        helper = cls.get(remote_url)
+        if not helper:
+            return None
+        # create temp file with the requested file name
+        file_name = '.' + remote_url.split('/')[-1].split(os.path.sep)[-1]
+        local_path = mktemp(suffix=file_name)
+        return helper.download_to_file(remote_url, local_path)
+
     def __init__(self, base_url, url, key=None, secret=None, region=None, verbose=False, logger=None, retries=5,
                  **kwargs):
         self._log = logger or log
@@ -540,7 +557,7 @@ class StorageHelper(object):
             if self._verbose:
                 self._log.info('Start downloading from %s' % remote_path)
             if not overwrite_existing and Path(local_path).is_file():
-                self._log.warn(
+                self._log.warning(
                     'File {} already exists, no need to download, thread id = {}'.format(
                         local_path,
                         threading.current_thread().ident,
@@ -911,7 +928,7 @@ class _HttpDriver(object):
     def download_object(self, obj, local_path, overwrite_existing=True, delete_on_failure=True, callback=None):
         p = Path(local_path)
         if not overwrite_existing and p.is_file():
-            log.warn('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
+            log.warning('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
             return
         length = 0
         with p.open(mode='wb') as f:
@@ -1160,7 +1177,7 @@ class _Boto3Driver(object):
         import boto3.s3.transfer
         p = Path(local_path)
         if not overwrite_existing and p.is_file():
-            log.warn('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
+            log.warning('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
             return
         container = self._containers[obj.container_name]
         obj.download_file(str(p),
@@ -1360,7 +1377,7 @@ class _GoogleCloudStorageDriver(object):
     def download_object(self, obj, local_path, overwrite_existing=True, delete_on_failure=True, callback=None):
         p = Path(local_path)
         if not overwrite_existing and p.is_file():
-            log.warn('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
+            log.warning('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
             return
         obj.download_to_filename(str(p))
 
@@ -1498,7 +1515,7 @@ class _AzureBlobServiceStorageDriver(object):
     def download_object(self, obj, local_path, overwrite_existing=True, delete_on_failure=True, callback=None):
         p = Path(local_path)
         if not overwrite_existing and p.is_file():
-            log.warn('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
+            log.warning('failed saving after download: overwrite=False and file exists (%s)' % str(p))
             return
 
         download_done = threading.Event()