hf-hub
v1.0.0 StableRust client for the Hugging Face Hub API
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 3d ago)
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 2+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (5.1K crates depend on it)
- !Heavy dependency tree (24 direct deps)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
2.2M downloads in the last 30 days (74.8K/day), up 16% from the previous period.
5.1K crates depend on hf-hub. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 2 years with 16 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
24 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.
Notable dependents include tokenizers, fastembed, llm-tokenizer, xgrammar, modelexpress-common. When high-quality crates choose hf-hub, it's a strong quality signal.
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