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Hugging Face Datasets API

Operations for managing and querying datasets on the Hub

Hugging Face Datasets 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 Datasets. 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 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 3 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.

4 operations 4 paths 3 schemas 4 GET

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 Datasets 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 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Datasets 4

Operations for managing and querying datasets on the Hub

GET
/datasets
List Datasets on the Hub
listDatasets 7 params → 200
GET
/datasets/{repo_id}
Get Dataset Information
getDataset 1 param → 200404
GET
/datasets/{repo_id}/parquet
Get Dataset Parquet Files
getDatasetParquet 1 param → 200
GET
/datasets-tags-by-type
List Dataset Tags Grouped by Type
listDatasetTags → 200

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DatasetSummary (13 properties), Error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Error
object
2 properties
DatasetSummary
object
13 properties
DatasetInfo

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

hugging-face-datasets-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Hugging Face publishes across the network.

Hugging Face Audio API
Hugging Face Chat API
Hugging Face Chat Completions API
Hugging Face Computer Vision API
Hugging Face Data Access API
Hugging Face Dataset Info API
Hugging Face Embeddings API
Hugging Face Endpoints API
Hugging Face Files & Metadata API
Hugging Face Image Generation API
Hugging Face Info API
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