# How to load a huggingface dataset from local path?
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**Author:**  [@4daJ](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2F4daJ)%5C
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 5:51am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-load-a-huggingface-dataset-from-local-path%2F53076%2F1 "2023-09-01T05:51:11Z")
Take a simple example in this website, [https://huggingface.co/datasets/Dahoas/rm-static:](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Dahoas/rm-static:)
if I want to load this dataset online, I just directly use,
```
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("Dahoas/rm-static")
```
What if I want to load dataset from local path, so I download the files and keep the same folder structure from web `Files and versions` fristly,
```
-data
|-test-00000-of-00001-bf4c733542e35fcb.parquet
|-train-00000-of-00001-2a1df75c6bce91ab.parquet
-.gitattributes
-README.md
-dataset_infos.json
```
Then,put them into my folder, but shows error when loading,
```
dataset_path ="/data/coco/dataset/Dahoas/rm-static"
tmp_dataset = load_dataset(dataset_path)
```
It shows,`FileNotFoundError: No (supported) data files or dataset script found in /data/coco/dataset/Dahoas/rm-static.`
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**Author:**  [@vpkprasanna](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fvpkprasanna)%5C
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 6:14am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-load-a-huggingface-dataset-from-local-path%2F53076%2F2 "2023-09-01T06:14:42Z")
if you want to load dataset from your local path you should follow the below apporach
[see the docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/v1.11.0/package_reference/loading_methods.html#datasets.load_dataset) which will accept a parameter named path where a `py` to process your local file path
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**Author:**  [@4daJ](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2F4daJ)%5C
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 6:24am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-load-a-huggingface-dataset-from-local-path%2F53076%2F3 "2023-09-01T06:24:11Z")
thanks for your reply, but, for example, there is no .py file in Dahoas/rm-static, and even though i put README.md, gitattributes in “/data/coco/dataset/Dahoas/rm-static”, it sitll shows aboved error
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**Author:**  [@4daJ](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2F4daJ)%5C
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 6:51am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-load-a-huggingface-dataset-from-local-path%2F53076%2F4 "2023-09-01T06:51:08Z")
I solved this problem,
data\_files = {“train”:“train-00000-of-00001-2a1df75c6bce91ab.parquet”,“test”:“test-00000-of-00001-8c7c51afc6d45980.parquet”}
raw\_datasets = load\_dataset(“parquet”, data\_dir=‘/Your/Path/Dahoas/rm-static/data’, data\_files=data\_files)
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**Author:**  [@ZilanYu](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FZilanYu)%5C
**Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 6:47am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-load-a-huggingface-dataset-from-local-path%2F53076%2F5 "2024-06-02T06:47:33Z")
Thank you!!!
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**Author:**  [@letao670982](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fletao670982)%5C
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 7:09am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-load-a-huggingface-dataset-from-local-path%2F53076%2F6 "2024-07-18T07:09:12Z")
Good solution! Bro