# Is there a model card and datasets API?

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I want to do an information retrieval project using Huggingface models.

Is there an API which I can use to fetch all available models? Is there something like this for datasets?

If there is no single way to iterate over all models/datasets, is there at least a way to retrieve model cards/dataset information for a given model/dataset using its name?

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**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fis-there-a-model-card-and-datasets-api%2F18318%2F2 "2022-05-24T18:32:09Z")

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Welcome!

For searching over models and datasets (and Spaces), you could use either the available [Hugging Face Hub Endpoints](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/endpoints) or the [Hub client library](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/main/en/index) (see [list\_models](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/main/en/package_reference/hf_api#huggingface_hub.HfApi.list_models) and [list\_datasets](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/main/en/package_reference/hf_api#huggingface_hub.HfApi.list_datasets)).

Then you can specifically download the `README.md` file for the dataset or model, which would be the dataset/model card: ([Downloading files](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/main/en/package_reference/file_download#huggingface_hub.hf_hub_download))

I would suggest using the Hugging Face Hub client library so you can do something like:

```python
import huggingface_hub as hf

models = hf.list_models()
datasets = hf.list_datasets()

# Downloads the file and returns the local path
card = hf.hf_hub_download(models[0].modelId, 'README.md') 

```