# Huggingface Datasets

Use this skill for Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API workflows that fetch subset/split...

- Repository: https://github.com/huggingface/skills (11249 stars)
- Category: Data and ML
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add huggingface/skills --skill huggingface-datasets -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add huggingface/skills --skill huggingface-datasets -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add huggingface/skills --skill huggingface-datasets -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add huggingface/skills --skill huggingface-datasets -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add huggingface/skills`

## Description

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.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Hugging Face Dataset Viewer

Use this skill to execute read-only Dataset Viewer API calls for dataset exploration and extraction.

## Core workflow

1. Optionally validate dataset availability with `/is-valid`.
2. Resolve `config` + `split` with `/splits`.
3. Preview with `/first-rows`.
4. Paginate content with `/rows` using `offset` and `length` (max 100).
5. Use `/search` for text matching and `/filter` for row predicates.
6. 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 <HF_TOKEN>`.

## Dataset Viewer

- `Validate dataset`: `/is-valid?dataset=<namespace/repo>`
- `List subsets and splits`: `/splits?dataset=<namespace/repo>`
- `Preview first rows`: `/first-rows?dataset=<namespace/repo>&config=<config>&split=<split>`
- `Paginate rows`: `/rows?dataset=<namespace/repo>&config=<config>&split=<split>&offset=<int>&length=<int>`
- `Search text`: `/search?dataset=<namespace/repo>&config=<config>&split=<split>&query=<text>&offset=<int>&length=<int>`
- `Filter with predicates`: `/filter?dataset=<namespace/repo>&config=<config>&split=<split>&where=<predicate>&orderby=<sort>&offset=<int>&length=<int>`
- `List parquet shards`: `/parquet?dataset=<namespace/repo>`
- `Get size totals`: `/size?dataset=<namespace/repo>`
- `Get column statistics`: `/statistics?dataset=<namespace/repo>&config=<config>&split=<split>`
- `Get Croissant metadata (if available)`: `/croissant?dataset=<namespace/repo>`

Pagination pattern:

```bash
curl "https://datasets-server.huggingface.co/rows?dataset=stanfordnlp/imdb&config=plain_text&split=train&offset=0&length=100"
curl "https://datasets-server.huggingface.co/rows?dataset=stanfordnlp/imdb&config=plain_text

The rest: https://github.com/huggingface/skills/blob/HEAD/skills/huggingface-datasets/SKILL.md