diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b116e54b..5cde67af 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Cargo.lock
 
 /data
 tokenizers/data
+bindings/python/tests/data
 /docs
 
 __pycache__
diff --git a/bindings/python/tests/__init__.py b/bindings/python/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/bindings/python/tests/bindings/__init__.py b/bindings/python/tests/bindings/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/bindings/python/tests/utils.py b/bindings/python/tests/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c60a68c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/python/tests/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import os
+import requests
+import pytest
+
+DATA_PATH = os.path.join("tests", "data")
+
+
+def download(url):
+    filename = url.rsplit("/")[-1]
+    filepath = os.path.join(DATA_PATH, filename)
+    if not os.path.exists(filepath):
+        with open(filepath, "wb") as f:
+            response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            for chunk in response.iter_content(1024):
+                f.write(chunk)
+    return filepath
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def data_dir():
+    assert os.getcwd().endswith("python")
+    exist = os.path.exists(DATA_PATH) and os.path.isdir(DATA_PATH)
+    if not exist:
+        os.mkdir(DATA_PATH)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def roberta_files(data_dir):
+    return {
+        "vocab": download(
+            "https://s3.amazonaws.com/models.huggingface.co/bert/roberta-base-vocab.json"
+        ),
+        "merges": download(
+            "https://s3.amazonaws.com/models.huggingface.co/bert/roberta-base-merges.txt"
+        ),
+    }