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Dataset Viewer API returning 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable for all datasets

Hugging Face's Dataset Viewer API is returning a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error for all datasets, affecting services like gbharti/finance-alpaca. The issue appears to be with the datasets-server service rather than individual datasets, and users are seeking confirmation of the outage.

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Hello Hugging Face team,

The Dataset Viewer appears to be unavailable for me across all datasets.

I am getting the following error when accessing the Dataset Viewer API:

https://datasets-server.huggingface.co/is-valid?dataset=gbharti/finance-alpaca Response:

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Unexpected token ‘<’, “…” is not valid JSON

I have tested:

gbharti/finance-alpaca

)The issue appears to affect the Dataset Viewer service rather than a specific dataset configuration.

Could someone confirm if there is an ongoing issue with datasets-server

or guide troubleshooting?

Thanks.

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