# Hugging Face Collections Scraper (`parseforge/huggingface-collections-scraper`) Actor

Query Hugging Face Collections by keyword, owner, or sort order. Records carry slug, title, owner, item count, upvotes, theme, last updated date, description, gating policy, and URL. Useful for AI research curation, dataset discovery, and tracking community trends.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/huggingface-collections-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $7.50 / 1,000 results

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# README

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## 📚 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](https://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

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

**Example 1, top upvoted Collections:**
```json
{ "sort": "upvotes", "maxItems": 50 }
````

**Example 2, Meta Llama collections:**

```json
{ "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:**

```json
{
  "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.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

| Actor | What it does |
|---|---|
| [ParseForge Hugging Face Spaces Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/huggingface-spaces-scraper) | Public Hugging Face Spaces metadata. |
| [ParseForge Hugging Face Discussions Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/huggingface-discussions-scraper) | Discussion threads and PRs on Hugging Face repos. |
| [ParseForge ModelScope Models Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/modelscope-models-scraper) | ModelScope public models. |
| [ParseForge Civitai Models Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/civitai-models-scraper) | Civitai public models. |

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for 900+ production-grade scrapers across business intelligence, real estate, e-commerce, sports, finance, and public records.

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `search` (type: `string`):

Free-text search across Collections titles. Trimmed before being sent to the API.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users are limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 items.

## `owner` (type: `string`):

Filter by Hugging Face owner or organization (e.g. huggingface, meta-llama).

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Sort order for the API.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "sort": "upvotes"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/huggingface-collections-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/huggingface-collections-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/huggingface-collections-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/huggingface-collections-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Hugging Face Collections Scraper",
        "description": "Query Hugging Face Collections by keyword, owner, or sort order. Records carry slug, title, owner, item count, upvotes, theme, last updated date, description, gating policy, and URL. Useful for AI research curation, dataset discovery, and tracking community trends.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "uu41YNyc4LTBS6cOo"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-parseforge-huggingface-collections-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                    "required": true,
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                        "application/json": {
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                            }
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                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~huggingface-collections-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-parseforge-huggingface-collections-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~huggingface-collections-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-parseforge-huggingface-collections-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "search": {
                        "title": "Search query",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Free-text search across Collections titles. Trimmed before being sent to the API."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users are limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 items."
                    },
                    "owner": {
                        "title": "Owner",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Filter by Hugging Face owner or organization (e.g. huggingface, meta-llama)."
                    },
                    "sort": {
                        "title": "Sort by",
                        "enum": [
                            "upvotes",
                            "trending",
                            "lastModified"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Sort order for the API.",
                        "default": "upvotes"
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
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                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
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                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```