# Huggingface not accessible to china

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**Category:** 🤗Datasets\
**Created:** [September 18, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhuggingface-not-accessible-to-china%2F55482 "2023-09-18T15:53:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jordane95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jordane95](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fjordane95)%5C
**Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhuggingface-not-accessible-to-china%2F55482%2F1 "2023-09-18T15:53:22Z")

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I want to download a dataset but it seems that [huggingface.co](http://huggingface.co) is no longer accessible to users in China.

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**Author:** ![bossalex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/bossalex/32/19486_2.png) [@bossalex](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fbossalex)%5C
**Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhuggingface-not-accessible-to-china%2F55482%2F2 "2023-09-22T13:41:38Z")

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you should add proxy on your machine

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**Author:** ![chancat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/chancat/32/23680_2.png) [@chancat](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fchancat)%5C
**Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 4:29am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhuggingface-not-accessible-to-china%2F55482%2F3 "2024-02-08T04:29:57Z")

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Even using a vpn I couldn’t access it, I tried a dozen or so nodes and it didn’t work. Even the self-built vps node was no exception, but now I can access it normally with a NZ sin card!