# Datasets download counter
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**Author:**  [@sl02](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsl02)%5C
**Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fdatasets-download-counter%2F28639%2F1 "2022-12-30T14:14:28Z")
I created a private Dataset repository a couple of days ago, however, the download counter shows 7 downloads have occurred in the last month. Is this a bug? How does the counter work?
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**Author:**  [@lhoestq](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Flhoestq)%5C
**Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 10:44am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fdatasets-download-counter%2F28639%2F2 "2023-01-03T10:44:11Z")
Every time you call `load_dataset` on your dataset it increases the download count by 1
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**Author:**  [@ameliasarah](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fameliasarah)%5C
**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 6:41am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fdatasets-download-counter%2F28639%2F3 "2023-04-03T06:41:02Z")
There are 22 _count datasets_ available on _data_.world. Find open _data_ about _count_ contributed by thousands of users and organizations across the world. I created a private _Dataset_ repository a couple [spacebar counter](https://spacebarcounter.us/) of days ago, however, the _download counter_ shows 7 _downloads_ have occurred in the last month …The COrpus of Urdu News TExt Reuse (COUNTER) corpus contains 1200 documents with real examples of text reuse from the field of journalism. It has been manually annotated at document