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hf — Interact with Hugging Face Hub. Login, manage local cache, download, or upload files. More informati

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Problem

How to use the hf command: Interact with Hugging Face Hub. Login, manage local cache, download, or upload files. More information: <https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/guides/cli>.

Solution

hf — Interact with Hugging Face Hub. Login, manage local cache, download, or upload files. More information: <https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/guides/cli>.

Login to Hugging Face Hub:

hf auth login

Display the name of the logged in user:

hf auth whoami

Log out:

hf auth logout

Print information about the environment:

hf env

Download files from a repository and print out the path (omit filenames to download entire repository):

hf download --repo-type {{repo_type}} {{repo_id}} {{filename1 filename2 ...}}

Upload an entire folder or a file to Hugging Face:

hf upload --repo-type {{repo_type}} {{repo_id}} {{path/to/local_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/repo_file_or_directory}}

Scan cache to see downloaded repositories and their disk usage:

hf cache ls

Code Snippets

hf auth login

Display the name of the logged in user

hf auth whoami

Log out

hf auth logout

Print information about the environment

hf env

Download files from a repository and print out the path (omit filenames to download entire repository)

hf download --repo-type {{repo_type}} {{repo_id}} {{filename1 filename2 ...}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/hf

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