Hugging Face Files & Metadata API
Parquet files, size, statistics, and metadata
Hugging Face Files & Metadata 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 Files & Metadata. 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 4 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.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Hugging Face Files & Metadata 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.
Parquet files, size, statistics, and metadata
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Error (4 properties), StatisticsResponse (3 properties), ParquetResponse (2 properties), SizeResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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