---
title: "Downloads shelf index with download-ready census bindings."
method: GET
path: "/api/downloads-index"
tags: ["Downloads", "Agent Docs"]
---

# Downloads shelf index with download-ready census bindings.

`GET /api/downloads-index`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://huggingbay.xyz`
- URL: `https://huggingbay.xyz/api/downloads-index`
- Auth: none required

Downloads shelf index with download-ready census bindings.

**Inputs.** No path or query fields are required. No request body is required.

**Outputs.** See each status below for its media type, schema and headers. A missing record or unavailable capability is not a successful empty result.

**Errors.** API JSON failures use the documented response schema. Read code, message and next; retry only when the response allows it. Auth, invalid input and missing records need a caller change.

**Rate limits.** Public read budgets apply by client IP and route group. This operation can have a smaller route-specific budget. Read Retry-After on 429 or retryable 503 responses.

## Response `200`

Downloads index (hugging-bay.downloads-index.v1)

- object
  - `schemaVersion` 'hugging-bay.downloads-index.v1', required

## Other responses

- `429`: Too many requests in the current window. Wait for Retry-After, then retry.
- `503`: Authority read failed closed or capacity was saturated; wait and retry.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/huggingbay/apis/hugging-bay-public-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/huggingbay/apis/hugging-bay-public-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/huggingbay/apis/hugging-bay-public-api/revisions/ea7ba26b1e27?raw)