> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://boinc-ai.gitbook.io/hub/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://boinc-ai.gitbook.io/hub/dataset-viewer.md).

# Dataset Viewer

## Dataset viewer

The dataset page includes a table with the contents of the dataset, arranged by pages of 100 rows. You can navigate between pages using the buttons at the bottom of the table.

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/hub/dataset-viewer.png)

### Search a word in the dataset

You can search for a word in the dataset by typing it in the search bar at the top of the table. The search is case-insensitive and will match any row containing the word. The text is searched in the columns of type `string`, even if the values are nested in a dictionary.

### Share a specific row

You can share a specific row by clicking on it, and then copying the URL in the address bar of your browser. For example <https://huggingface.co/datasets/glue/viewer/mrpc/test?row=241> will open the dataset viewer on the MRPC dataset, on the test split, and on the 241st row.

### Access the parquet files

Every dataset is auto-converted to the Parquet format. Click on [*“Auto-converted to Parquet”*](https://huggingface.co/datasets/glue/tree/refs%2Fconvert%2Fparquet/cola) to access the Parquet files. Refer to the [Datasets Server docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets-server/parquet_process) to learn how to query the dataset with libraries such as Polars, Pandas or DuckDB.

You can also access the list of Parquet files programmatically using the [Hub API](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/api#endpoints-table): <https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/glue/parquet>.

### Very large datasets

For datasets >5GB, we only auto-convert to Parquet the first \~5GB of the dataset. In this case, an informational message lets you know that the Viewer is partial. This should be a large enough sample to represent the full dataset accurately, let us know if you need a bigger sample.

### Dataset preview

For the biggest datasets, the page shows a preview of the first 100 rows instead of a full-featured viewer. This restriction only applies for datasets over 5GB that are not natively in Parquet format.

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/hub/dataset-preview.png)

### Disable the viewer

The dataset viewer can be disabled. To do this, add a YAML section to the dataset’s `README.md` file (create one if it does not already exist) and add a `viewer` property with the value `false`.

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```
---
viewer: false
---
```

Note that the viewer is always disabled on the private datasets.