The dataset viewer provides an /info endpoint for exploring the general information about dataset, including such fields as description, citation, homepage, license and features.

import requests
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_TOKEN}"}
API_URL = "https://datasets-server.huggingface.co/info?dataset=ibm/duorc&config=SelfRC"
def query():
    response = requests.get(API_URL, headers=headers)
    return response.json()
data = query()

The endpoint response is a JSON with the dataset_info key. Its structure and content correspond to DatasetInfo object of the datasets library.

{
  "dataset_info": {
    "description": "",
    "citation": "",
    "homepage": "",
    "license": "",
    "features": {
      "plot_id": { "dtype": "string", "_type": "Value" },
      "plot": { "dtype": "string", "_type": "Value" },
      "title": { "dtype": "string", "_type": "Value" },
      "question_id": { "dtype": "string", "_type": "Value" },
      "question": { "dtype": "string", "_type": "Value" },
      "answers": {
        "feature": { "dtype": "string", "_type": "Value" },
        "_type": "Sequence"
      },
      "no_answer": { "dtype": "bool", "_type": "Value" }
    },
    "builder_name": "parquet",
    "dataset_name": "duorc",
    "config_name": "SelfRC",
    "version": { "version_str": "0.0.0", "major": 0, "minor": 0, "patch": 0 },
    "splits": {
      "train": {
        "name": "train",
        "num_bytes": 248966361,
        "num_examples": 60721,
        "dataset_name": null
      },
      "validation": {
        "name": "validation",
        "num_bytes": 56359392,
        "num_examples": 12961,
        "dataset_name": null
      },
      "test": {
        "name": "test",
        "num_bytes": 51022318,
        "num_examples": 12559,
        "dataset_name": null
      }
    },
    "download_size": 21001846,
    "dataset_size": 356348071
  },
  "partial": false
}

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