huggingface_hub
Hugging Facehuggingface_hub is the official Python client and hf command-line tool for the Hugging Face Hub, enabling programmatic downloading and uploading of files, repository management, running inference and jobs, 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.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public
- core features withheld
- no
The LICENSE file is the unmodified Apache 2.0 text and the repository accepts outside contributions. The README describes one package covering the CLI and the Python library with no paid or enterprise tier beside it; the hosted Hub it connects to is a separate service.
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/huggingface/huggingface_hub@main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29
LICENSE file carries the standard Apache License text, including the grant "you may not use this file except in compliance with the License" and the heading "Version 2.0, January 2004".
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/huggingface/huggingface_hub@main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29
README invites outside work on the repository: "Everyone is welcome to contribute, and we value everybody's contribution." and links a contribution guide; searched for paid, enterprise, license key and hosted-tier language beside the library: none.
- 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://pypi.org/pypi/huggingface-hub/json recorded 2026-09-29
PyPI metadata for huggingface-hub lists "license":"Apache-2.0" and the classifier "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License".
Adoption
5 high confidenceAdoption is measured by PyPI downloads of the huggingface-hub package.
- https://pypistats.org/api/packages/huggingface-hub/recent recorded 2026-08-13
last_month downloads = 493,557,521 for huggingface-hub
Capability
5 high confidenceThe package covers downloads, uploads, repository management, inference, jobs and search through both a CLI and a Python library. Other open source ML libraries integrate with the Hub through it, which makes it a shared dependency across the ecosystem.
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/huggingface/huggingface_hub@main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29
README describes the library as "The official CLI and Python client for the Hugging Face Hub", covering downloads, uploads, repository management, inference, jobs and search in "one package".
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/huggingface/huggingface_hub@main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29
README describes library integration: "We're partnering with cool open source ML libraries to provide free model hosting and versioning."
- 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 2026-09-24