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huggingface_hub

huggingface_hub is the official Python client for the Hugging Face Hub, enabling programmatic downloading and uploading of files, repository management, running inference, and search across models, datasets, and Spaces. It serves as the integration layer that other ML libraries use to host and retrieve content on the Hub. It is maintained by Hugging Face.

Verified live 2026-06-22 via primary sources. LICENSE body is verbatim Apache License 2.0; full source public.

Openness

5 high confidence

5.0

license: Apache-2.0(OSI)
source: public
core-gated: ungated

LICENSE body is verbatim Apache License 2.0; full source public.

https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-06-22
LICENSE file is the verbatim Apache License Version 2.0

Adoption

5 high confidence

5.0

PyPI last-month downloads of 331,796,503 exceed the 50M+ threshold.

https://pypistats.org/api/packages/huggingface-hub/recent recorded 2026-06-22
last_month = 331,796,503 PyPI downloads

Capability

5 high confidence

5.0

Central dependency across the Hugging Face ecosystem.

https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub recorded 2026-06-22
README describes downloading/uploading, repo management, inference, search

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)