Only Download Metadata
Hi,
Is there a way to just download the metadata? I want to plot coverage over some types of areas I am interested in, and it would be convenient if I could just grab the shards with data I want!
Thanks!
Hi. As far as we know, the HuggingFace Dataset API does not support only downloading metadata. I understand this is more complex as the .parquet files are compressed and the samples inside are stored as a complete object one after the other. If I'm correct, even if you only wanted metadata, you have to download the whole object, get the metadata, and then download the next.
We are evaluating reprocessing the Dataset, and this is one of the things we want to simplify, likely exposing different configs, for image and metadata.
Other ideas are welcome