# HuggingFace Trending Models, Datasets & Spaces Scraper (`outofboundslab/hf-trending-scraper`) Actor

Scrape trending models, datasets, and spaces from HuggingFace Hub. Get download counts, likes, tags, pipeline types, licenses, and more. Sort by downloads, likes, or trending. Filter by task type.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/outofboundslab/hf-trending-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Julian Bracaglia](https://apify.com/outofboundslab) (community)
- **Categories:** AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## HuggingFace Trending Models, Datasets & Spaces Scraper

Scrape trending models, datasets, and spaces from the [HuggingFace Hub](https://huggingface.co) — the world's largest AI model repository with 1M+ models, 300K+ datasets, and 500K+ spaces.

### Features

- **3 data types in one run:** Models, Datasets, and Spaces
- **Flexible sorting:** By downloads, likes, or trending
- **Task filtering:** Filter models by pipeline task (text-generation, image-classification, etc.)
- **Up to 1,000 results per type** per run
- **No API key needed** — uses public HuggingFace API
- **Clean structured output** with normalized fields across all types
- **License extraction** from tags
- **Author extraction** from item IDs

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `type` | select | `all` | What to scrape: `all`, `models`, `datasets`, or `spaces` |
| `sort` | select | `downloads` | Sort by: `downloads`, `likes`, or `trending` |
| `limit` | integer | `100` | Max results per type (1-1000) |
| `filter` | textfield | (empty) | Filter models by pipeline task (e.g. `text-generation`, `image-classification`, `translation`) |

### Sample Input

```json
{
  "type": "all",
  "sort": "downloads",
  "limit": 50,
  "filter": ""
}
```

### Output

Each result item includes:

```json
{
  "type": "model",
  "id": "meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
  "author": "meta-llama",
  "downloads": 1234567,
  "likes": 1234,
  "tags": ["safetensors", "text-generation", "transformers", "license:llama3.3"],
  "pipeline_tag": "text-generation",
  "last_modified": "2026-06-15T10:30:00.000Z",
  "created_at": "2024-12-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "library_name": "transformers",
  "license": "llama3.3",
  "private": false,
  "gated": false,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-14T20:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Spaces also include: `sdk` (gradio, streamlit, docker, etc.).

### Use Cases

- **AI model research:** Track which models are gaining traction
- **Market intelligence:** Monitor the AI landscape for investment signals
- **Content creation:** Find trending models for tutorials and reviews
- **MLOps:** Discover new models for your pipeline
- **Competitive analysis:** See what organizations are publishing
- **Data for AI agents:** Feed model discovery data into your AI workflows via MCP

### Pricing

Pay-per-result: **$0.50 per 1,000 results**

### Links

- [HuggingFace Hub](https://huggingface.co)
- [HuggingFace API Docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/api)

# Actor input Schema

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

What to scrape from HuggingFace Hub

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

How to sort results

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of items to return per type (models, datasets, spaces). E.g. limit=100 with type=all returns up to 300 items total.

## `filter` (type: `string`):

Filter models by pipeline task. Leave empty for all. Examples: text-generation, text-classification, image-classification, translation, summarization, fill-mask, tokenization, feature-extraction, image-generation, text-to-image, automatic-speech-recognition, text-to-speech

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "type": "all",
  "sort": "downloads",
  "limit": 100,
  "filter": ""
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("outofboundslab/hf-trending-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("outofboundslab/hf-trending-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 '{}' |
apify call outofboundslab/hf-trending-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/4Irvk3vfgQ76lE0S7/builds/GG2W9CfXfBxt4E1cl/openapi.json