# huggingface-datasets

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Use this skill for Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API workflows that fetch subset/split metadata, paginate rows, search text, apply filters, download parquet URLs, and read size or statistics.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/huggingface/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/huggingface-datasets ~/.claude/skills/huggingface-datasets
```

## From README

Hugging Face Dataset Viewer Use this skill to execute read-only Dataset Viewer API calls for dataset exploration and extraction. Core workflow Optionally validate dataset availability with /is-valid. Resolve config + split with /splits. Preview with /first-rows. Paginate content with /rows using offset and length (max 100). Use /search for text matching and /filter for row predicates. Retrieve parquet links via /parquet and totals/metadata via /size and /statistics. Defaults Base URL: https://datasets-server.huggingface.co Default API method: GET Query params should be URL-encoded. offset is 0-based. length max is usually 100 for row-like endpoints. Gated/private datasets require Authorization: Bearer .

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/huggingface/skills/huggingface-datasets/
- GitHub: https://github.com/huggingface/skills
- Author: [@huggingface](https://omgskills.com/library/huggingface/index.md)

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