Hugging Face Hub MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to the Hugging Face Hub API, allowing you to search and retrieve information about models, datasets, and their metadata.

Features

• Models API: Search models, get detailed model info, and retrieve model tags

• Datasets API: Search datasets, get dataset info, access parquet files, and Croissant metadata

• Full Hub Integration: Access all public repositories and metadata from Hugging Face Hub

Related MCP server: Hugging Face MCP Server

Tools

Models

• hf_list_models - List and search models with filtering options

• hf_get_model_info - Get detailed information about a specific model

• hf_get_model_tags - Get all available model tags

Datasets

• hf_list_datasets - List and search datasets with filtering options

• hf_get_dataset_info - Get detailed information about a specific dataset

• hf_get_dataset_parquet - Get parquet file information for datasets

• hf_get_croissant - Get Croissant metadata for datasets

• hf_get_dataset_tags - Get all available dataset tags

Installation

Usage

STDIO (for Claude Desktop)

HTTP Server

Configuration

The server uses the Hugging Face Hub public API endpoints. No authentication is required for public repositories.

Environment variables:

• HF_BASE_URL: Base URL for Hugging Face API (default: https://huggingface.co)

• PORT: HTTP server port (default: 3003)

Examples

Search for text classification models:

Get information about a specific model:

Search for datasets by author: