Hugging Face cheatsheet
Hugging Face: Cache and environment
4 common Hugging Face tasks.
Move the cache
Store downloaded models and datasets on a larger disk.
export HF_HOME=/data/huggingface
Work offline
Use only files already in the cache and make no network requests.
export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1
Download a repository from Python
Download a full repository snapshot and get its local path.
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
path = snapshot_download("Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct")
Download one file from Python
Download a single file and get its local path.
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="bert-base-uncased", filename="config.json")