The huggingface_hub Python library is the official SDK for authenticating with Hugging Face, downloading models/datasets, and interacting with the Hub API.
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Hugging Face Hub SDK
Hugging Face · HF token for private/gated resources.
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Capabilities
- Model/dataset download helpers
- Hub API authentication
- Inference client helpers as documented
Limitations
- Separate from transformers runtime library though often used together
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