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Download Commands

Download models, datasets, and files from Hugging Face Hub. Use optimized transfers with resume support, file filtering, and local caching.

8 commands

Pro Tips

Use '--include' and '--exclude' patterns to download only needed files (e.g., --include '*.safetensors').

Add '--resume-download' to continue interrupted downloads without restarting.

Use '--local-dir' to download to a specific folder instead of the cache.

Common Mistakes

Large models (70B+) are 100GB+ - ensure sufficient disk space before downloading.

Some models require accepting license agreements on the Hub before download.

Commands

Download model

$ huggingface-cli download meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf

Download a model to the local cache.

Download to directory

$ huggingface-cli download meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf --local-dir ./models

Download model to a specific local directory.

Download specific files

$ huggingface-cli download meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf --include "*.safetensors"

Download only files matching a pattern.

Exclude files

$ huggingface-cli download bert-base-uncased --exclude "*.h5" --exclude "*.msgpack"

Skip files matching patterns during download.

Download dataset

$ huggingface-cli download --repo-type dataset imdb

Download a dataset from the Hub.

Download specific revision

$ huggingface-cli download meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf --revision v1.0

Download a specific version or branch.

Resume download

$ huggingface-cli download meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf --resume-download

Continue an interrupted download.

Download single file

$ huggingface-cli download meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf config.json

Download only a specific file from a repo.