Hugging Face

Hugging Face Natural Language Processing API

NLP tasks including text generation, classification, and translation

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Artificial Intelligence Management BC-610.60

Operations 11

POST /models/{model_id} Run Inference on a Model #
POST /pipeline/{task} Run Inference by Task Pipeline #
POST /models/{model_id}/text-generation Text Generation Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/text-classification Text Classification Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/question-answering Question Answering Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/summarization Text Summarization Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/translation Translation Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/fill-mask Fill Mask Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/feature-extraction Feature Extraction Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/zero-shot-classification Zero-shot Classification Inference #
POST /models/{model_id}/sentence-similarity Sentence Similarity Inference #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/index
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Authentication
https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/quicktour#authentication
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GettingStarted
https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/quicktour
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RateLimits
https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/en/rate-limits
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Documentation
https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/api
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Authentication
https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-tokens
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RateLimits
https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/rate-limits
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Documentation
https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-endpoints/api_reference
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GettingStarted
https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-endpoints/index
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Documentation
https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/index
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APIReference
https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/tasks/index
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GettingStarted
https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/guides/first-api-call
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Documentation
https://huggingface.co/docs/dataset-viewer/index
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GettingStarted
https://huggingface.co/docs/dataset-viewer/en/quick_start
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Documentation
https://huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference/en/index
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APIReference
https://huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference/en/reference/api_reference
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GettingStarted
https://huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference/quicktour
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Documentation
https://huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference/en/messages_api

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hugging-face/refs/heads/main/openapi/hugging-face-natural-language-processing-api-openapi.yml

SDKs

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/huggingface/dataset-viewer
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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference

Other Resources

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FAQ
https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/faq
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SDKs
https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/index
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SDKs
https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface.js/hub/README
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Pricing
https://huggingface.co/pricing#inference-endpoints
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Pricing
https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing
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Models
https://huggingface.co/inference/models

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OpenAPI Specification

hugging-face-natural-language-processing-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Hugging Face Inference Natural Language Processing API
  description: Run inference on 200,000+ machine learning models hosted on the Hugging Face Hub with a simple HTTP request. Supports text generation, image classification, object detection, speech recognition, and many more tasks.
  version: 1.0.0
  termsOfService: https://huggingface.co/terms-of-service
  contact:
    name: Hugging Face Support
    url: https://huggingface.co/support
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: https://api-inference.huggingface.co
  description: Hugging Face Inference API production server
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:


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