Hi! I’m a researcher hoping to study the history of commonly used datasets – I know that dataset cards on huggingface reveal the number of “Downloads last month” and was wondering if there’s a way to obtain those numbers over time.
I saw this post to get the number of downloads of all time / of the last month, but wasn’t sure how to track month by month or year by year.
I think the API only has functions to view the most recent month and cumulative totals…
I think the logs themselves are stored on the HF server, so why not request the function?
Hi @hongrach, it is indeed the case that from the API you can only access the “downloads last 30 days” and “downloads all time”.
In addition, we’ve introduced a new Analytics tab in the organization settings. This feature is available exclusively for models and datasets stored within an organization and is part of our Enterprise offering, which requires a subscription. For more details, visit Enterprise Hub - Hugging Face. The data can be exported as CSV.
Here is an example for the huggingface/paper-central-data · Datasets at Hugging Face dataset
Thanks so much for the pointers everyone! I’m currently focused on tracking existing datasets by various other organizations (ie wouldn’t be a part of the Enterprise Hub), so I may try requesting the function on the API and see where that goes 
