Hugging Face Trending Monitor

Tracks trending models / datasets / spaces on huggingface.co via their public Hub API. Maps to "AI/ML competitive intelligence", "model release tracking", "open-source momentum monitoring" briefs.

Built 2026-05-03 as Demo #7. Pattern generalizes to any rank-list with a JSON API (PyPI new releases, npm trending, GitHub topics).

Run

. ~/freelance/.venv/bin/activate
cd ~/freelance/portfolio_demos/huggingface_trending
python monitor.py --reset
python monitor.py --once
python monitor.py --simulate-changes 5
python monitor.py --once

Result

• 110 items tracked across models / datasets / spaces ✅
• Idempotent re-run ✅
• 5 simulated likes-count changes detected ✅