huggingface/huggingface_hub

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The official Python client and CLI for the Hugging Face Hub, a platform for sharing machine learning models, datasets, and apps. It lets users download and cache files, create and manage repositories, upload models, search the Hub, and interact with its APIs programmatically or from the terminal.

Use cases

• download pretrained models from huggingface hub
• upload my model to huggingface
• download a dataset from the hub in python
• create a repository on the hugging face hub
• search huggingface models programmatically
• manage huggingface repos from the command line
• cache model files locally for training
• authenticate with hugging face from a script

When to choose

• you need to download, upload, or manage models and datasets on the Hugging Face Hub
• you are building a Python library that integrates with Hugging Face model hosting
• you want a CLI to script Hub interactions like repo creation and file transfer
• you need cached, resumable downloads of large model weights

When to avoid

• you need to run inference on models rather than manage Hub artifacts (use transformers or inference clients)
• you want to host your own model registry independent of Hugging Face's platform
• you need a general-purpose file storage client unrelated to the Hub

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client cli developer-tools machine-learning sdk machine-learning developer-tools artificial-intelligence large-language-models python cli cross-platform windows hugging-face model-hub pretrained-models model-download dataset-download pytorch model-sharing hf-cli linux macos

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