# Hugging Face — Introducing swift-huggingface: The Complete Swift Client for Hugging Face

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-12-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/swift-huggingface
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1574-introducing-swift-huggingface-the-complete-swift-client-for-hugging-face

Hugging Face released swift-huggingface, a Swift package that provides a full client for the Hugging Face Hub, including network improvements, a shared cache with Python, flexible authentication, and OAuth support.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/swift-huggingface:

> swift-huggingface is a ground-up rewrite focused on reliability and developer experience. It provides: Complete Hub API coverage — models, datasets, spaces, collections, discussions, and more Robust file operations — progress tracking, resume support, and proper error handling Python-compatible cache — share downloaded models between Swift and Python clients Flexible authentication — a TokenProvider pattern that makes credential sources explicit OAuth support — first-class support for user-facing apps that need to authenticate users Xet storage backend support (Coming soon!) — chunk-based deduplication for significantly faster downloads

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