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Hugging Face Computer Vision API

Image classification, object detection, and segmentation tasks

Hugging Face Computer Vision API is one of 21 APIs that Hugging Face publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Computer Vision. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, rate-limit docs, and pricing.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://datasets-server.huggingface.co.

2 operations 2 paths 2 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api-inference.huggingface.co
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
License
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Hugging Face Computer Vision API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (HF Token) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated, though some operations may also be called without credentials.

  • bearerAuth — Optional Hugging Face API token. Required for private and gated datasets.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Computer Vision 2

Image classification, object detection, and segmentation tasks

POST
/models/{model_id}/image-classification
Image Classification Inference
imageClassification 1 param body → 200
POST
/models/{model_id}/object-detection
Object Detection Inference
objectDetection 1 param body → 200

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ObjectDetectionResult (3 properties), ClassificationResult (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ObjectDetectionResult
object
3 properties
ClassificationResult
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

hugging-face-computer-vision-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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