huggingface_hub
Hugging Facehuggingface_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 2026-08-13 via GitHub and the LICENSE body.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public
- core-gated
- ungated
LICENSE body is verbatim Apache License 2.0; full source public. The repository is public and unarchived, and the README describes the whole library with no paid, enterprise or hosted tier beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.
- https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-13
LICENSE file is the verbatim Apache License Version 2.0 text
- https://api.github.com/repos/huggingface/huggingface_hub recorded 2026-08-13
Repo metadata - license spdx_id Apache-2.0, private false, archived false, default branch main - for huggingface/huggingface_hub.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13
README describes the official CLI and Python client for the Hub - up/download, repo management, inference, search - as published. The paid product is the Hub subscription, not this client.
Adoption
5 high confidence493,557,521 PyPI downloads of `huggingface-hub` in the trailing 30 days, which falls in the top band of the software usage scale, over 10M a month, level 5.
- https://pypistats.org/api/packages/huggingface-hub/recent recorded 2026-08-13
last_month downloads = 493,557,521 for huggingface-hub
Capability
5 high confidenceCentral dependency across the Hugging Face ecosystem.
- https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub recorded 2026-08-13
README still describes the official CLI and Python client for Hub up/download, repo management, inference and search
Verified 2026-08-13