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hf-hub

v0.5.0 Growing

Rust client for the Hugging Face Hub API

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021

Quick Verdict

  • βœ“Actively maintained (updated 18d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • βœ“Massive adoption (3.7K crates depend on it)
  • βœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
8.4M
Dependents
3.7K
Releases
15
Size
48KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

1.6M downloads in the last 30 days (53.4K/day), up 21% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

3.7K crates depend on hf-hub. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 2+ years old, hf-hub hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 47KB, hf-hub is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tokenizers, fastembed, xgrammar, llm-tokenizer, llama-cpp-2. When high-quality crates choose hf-hub, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 14/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads Β· last 90 days
48K/day avg+15%
020K40K60K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.3
66%
v0.3.2
23%
v0.5.0
6%
v0.4.2
4%
v0.4.1
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["default-tls", "tokio", "ureq"]

ureq*tokio*native-tlsrustls-tlsdefault-tls*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
19
direct dependencies
Dependents
3.7K
crates depend on hf-hub