📚 Hugging Face Collections Public API Scraper

🚀 Export Hugging Face Collections metadata in seconds. Slug, title, owner, items, upvotes, theme, last updated, description, position, and gating, straight from the public huggingface.co/api/collections endpoint.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 12 fields per record · Full Hugging Face Collections catalogue · Public API, no key required

The Hugging Face Collections Public API Scraper turns the huggingface.co/api/collections public REST endpoint into a clean dataset. It calls the API with your chosen sort, search, and owner filters and flattens each Collection into one tidy row.

Coverage spans every public Collection on Hugging Face, curated by individuals, research labs, and organizations. Each row carries slug, title, owner, item count, upvote count, theme, last-updated timestamp, description, position, and gating policy.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🤖 ML researchers	Track curated model and dataset bundles
📊 Analysts	Spot the most upvoted Collections
🏢 Platform teams	Mirror Collections into internal directories
🧑‍🎓 Educators	Pull curated learning sets
📰 AI journalists	Source curated content for stories
👩‍💻 Developers	Power Collection discovery features

📋 What the Hugging Face Collections Public API Scraper does

• Calls /api/collections with your chosen sort, search, and owner filters.
• Paginates via the Hugging Face cursor link header.
• Flattens owner and item details into top-level fields.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a clean error record.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

💡 Why it matters: Collections are how Hugging Face curates models, datasets, and Spaces around a topic. This actor lets you mirror that taxonomy for analytics or internal discovery.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
search	string	No	Free-text search across titles.
maxItems	integer	No	Free users 10, paid up to 1,000,000. Prefill is 10.
owner	string	No	Hugging Face owner or organization.
sort	enum	No	upvotes, trending, or lastModified.

Example 1, top upvoted Collections:

{ "sort": "upvotes", "maxItems": 50 }

Example 2, Meta Llama collections:

{ "owner": "meta-llama", "maxItems": 100 }

⚠️ Good to Know: The Hugging Face API is public and free. No API key needed.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 slug	string	Owner/collection slug.
📚 title	string	Collection title.
👤 owner	string	Owner name.
📦 items	number	Item count.
👍 upvotes	number	Upvote count.
🎨 theme	string	Theme tag.
🕒 lastUpdated	string	Last update timestamp.
📝 description	string	Collection description.
🔢 position	number	Order position.
🔒 gating	string	Gating mode.
🔗 url	string	Direct link.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When fetched.
❌ error	string	Set if the upstream response was an error.

Sample record:

{
  "slug": "huggingface/llms-65f1a4b6f8b9e8a8b1c0d0e0",
  "title": "Top LLMs of 2026",
  "owner": "huggingface",
  "items": 12,
  "upvotes": 234,
  "theme": "purple",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-05-22T10:14:55.000Z",
  "description": "A curated set of the most-used LLMs this year.",
  "position": 1,
  "gating": null,
  "url": "https://huggingface.co/collections/huggingface/llms-65f1a4b6f8b9e8a8b1c0d0e0",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public Hugging Face API, no key needed. | | 📚 | The only Apify actor purpose-built for Collections metadata. | | 🔢 | Casts numbers for clean Excel and pandas imports. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as clean rows. | | 🔌 | Sort, search, and owner filters exposed. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, or RSS export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Pagination	Flattening	Export formats
Raw curl	5 min	manual	none	manual
huggingface_hub python	15 min	yes	partial	code
This Actor	5 seconds	yes	yes	7 formats

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a sort and optional filters.
3. Click Start. Your dataset is ready in seconds.

💼 Business use cases

📚 Curated content mirroring. Mirror top Collections into your internal model registry.

📊 Catalogue analytics. Spot the most popular themes by upvotes.

🏢 Internal directories. Build a team-wide curated index of Collections.

📰 AI market journalism. Trend pieces on what's being curated.

🔌 Automating Hugging Face Collections Public API Scraper

• Make / Zapier: schedule a daily run.
• Cron schedule: native Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks: POST on completion.
• Warehouse pipe: native integrations move datasets straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Curated learning sets for ML courses.

🧪 Personal research. Discover what topics are trending.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Track open-source AI curation.

🧰 Tinkering and prototyping. Seed a curation app.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to design a Collections analytics pipeline. The input fields, schema, and examples above contain everything an LLM needs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ API key needed? No.

❓ Pagination? Yes, via the cursor link header.

❓ Filter by owner? Yes.

❓ Sort options? Upvotes, trending, lastModified.

❓ How many Collections? Tens of thousands and growing.

❓ Rate limits? Generous public limits.

❓ Excel export? Yes, via the Apify dataset UI.

❓ Schema stability? Core fields are stable.

❓ Scheduling? Yes, via Apify scheduler.

❓ Public data only? Yes.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint. Trigger runs from a calendar event, a form submission, a cron job, or pipe results straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or a Postgres warehouse.

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