huggingface/huggingface_hub

The official Python client for the Hugging Face Hub.

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This is a Python client that helps ML developers and researchers easily find, download, upload, and manage machine learning models and datasets. It allows you to programmatically access the Hugging Face Hub, where you can share your work and use resources from the community. You can take models and datasets from the Hub into your Python environment and upload your own creations back to the Hub.

3,405 stars. Used by 325 other packages. Actively maintained with 89 commits in the last 30 days. Available on PyPI.

Use this if you are a Python developer or ML researcher who needs to programmatically interact with the Hugging Face Hub to manage or retrieve machine learning assets.

Not ideal if you prefer to interact with the Hugging Face Hub through its web interface or are not working in a Python development environment.

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Maintenance 22 / 25
Adoption 15 / 25
Maturity 25 / 25
Community 25 / 25

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3,405

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955

Language

Python

License

Apache-2.0

Last pushed

Mar 13, 2026

Commits (30d)

89

Dependencies

9

Reverse dependents

325

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