Hugging Face Models Scraper

Search and scrape Hugging Face's model catalog with downloads, likes, trending score, tags, license, library, pipeline task, and full metadata. No API key required, uses the public Hugging Face Hub API.

Why use this

• AI tooling vendors: build a model coverage matrix for your inference API. Filter by pipeline tag + library to see exactly what your customers want supported.
• Investors and analysts: track trending open-source models and the orgs publishing them. The trendingScore is the live signal HF uses to surface the homepage.
• Open-source maintainers: monitor your competitive landscape. Filter by pipeline_tag + library to see who you're ranking against.
• Recruiters / VCs: surface organisations publishing high-impact models. Filter by author and sort by downloads.
• Researchers: pull a full model index for citation analysis, licensing audits, or pipeline-tag distribution studies.

Quickstart

Paste this into the input and click Start:

{
  "search": "llama",
  "sort": "downloads",
  "direction": "desc",
  "min_downloads": 10000,
  "max_results": 25,
  "preview_mode": true
}

Returns the top 25 Llama-related models by recent download count, free preview enabled.

What it returns

Each row (one per model):

{
  "model_id": "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
  "author": "meta-llama",
  "name": "Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
  "url": "https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
  "downloads": 11146200,
  "downloads_all_time": 89000000,
  "likes": 6021,
  "trending_score": 766,
  "last_modified": "2026-06-01T12:30:00.000Z",
  "created_at": "2024-07-22T15:00:00.000Z",
  "pipeline_tag": "text-generation",
  "library_name": "transformers",
  "tags": ["transformers", "safetensors", "llama", "text-generation", "conversational", "en", "license:llama3.1"],
  "license": "license:llama3.1",
  "is_gated": true,
  "is_private": false,
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T07:00:00.000Z"
}

Filters

• search: Free-text search across model names and tags
• author: Restrict to one org (meta-llama, google, mistralai, openai, stabilityai, etc.)
• pipeline_tag: Filter by HF pipeline (text-generation, image-to-text, automatic-speech-recognition, etc.)
• library: Filter by library (transformers, diffusers, sentence-transformers, peft, gguf)
• sort + direction: Sort by downloads, likes, trendingScore, lastModified, createdAt
• min_downloads / min_likes: Threshold filters to skip noise
• max_results: Hard cap (default 50, max 1,000)
• preview_mode: Free preview (5 results, no charge)

Pricing

• $0.001 per model returned. Pay only for results you keep after filtering.
• Free preview mode returns the first 5 models without charging.

Pairs well with

• github-trending-scraper: Cross-reference trending HF models with trending GitHub repos publishing them. Free preview.
• github-repo-bulk-analyzer: For each model's GitHub repo, pull stars, contributors, and activity. $0.005 per repo.
• devto-top-articles-scraper: Pair trending models with top dev.to articles in the AI tag. $0.005 per article.
• ai-sales-personalizer: Outbound to orgs publishing high-impact models with personalised openers. $0.10 to $0.20 per lead.
• contact-details-extractor: Pull contact details from the org's website. $0.01 per site.

Integrations

This actor works out of the box with every Apify-supported integration:

• API: call via Apify API or any official SDK (Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET). Returns a clean dataset URL.
• Schedule: set a daily, weekly, or custom cron cadence in Apify Console. Combine with notification for fresh feeds.
• Webhooks: wire ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED to Slack, Discord, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, or any HTTPS endpoint.
• MCP: this actor is discoverable through Apify's hosted MCP server at mcp.apify.com for Claude, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and other MCP clients.
• n8n / Make / Zapier: native HTTP-Request integration. Trigger the actor on schedule, pipe results to Google Sheets, Airtable, your CRM, or any database.

Try it free

Every Apify user gets $5/month in free platform credits (around 5,000 events at this actor's per-event price). Run preview mode first to confirm output shape before scaling.

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What's New

• 2026-06-09: Initial release. Public Hugging Face Hub API integration, no key required, full metadata pulled.

Last Updated

2026-06-09