# Loading methods

Methods for listing and loading datasets and metrics:

## Datasets

[[autodoc]] datasets.list_datasets

[[autodoc]] datasets.load_dataset

[[autodoc]] datasets.load_from_disk

[[autodoc]] datasets.load_dataset_builder

[[autodoc]] datasets.get_dataset_config_names

[[autodoc]] datasets.get_dataset_infos

[[autodoc]] datasets.get_dataset_split_names

[[autodoc]] datasets.inspect_dataset

## Metrics

<Tip warning={true}>

Metrics is deprecated in 🤗 Datasets. To learn more about how to use metrics, take a look at the library 🤗 [Evaluate](https://huggingface.co/docs/evaluate/index)! In addition to metrics, you can find more tools for evaluating models and datasets.

</Tip>

[[autodoc]] datasets.list_metrics

[[autodoc]] datasets.load_metric

[[autodoc]] datasets.inspect_metric

## From files

Configurations used to load data files.
They are used when loading local files or a dataset repository:

- local files: `load_dataset("parquet", data_dir="path/to/data/dir")`
- dataset repository: `load_dataset("allenai/c4")`

You can pass arguments to `load_dataset` to configure data loading.
For example you can specify the `sep` parameter to define the [`~datasets.packaged_modules.csv.CsvConfig`] that is used to load the data:

```python
load_dataset("csv", data_dir="path/to/data/dir", sep="\t")
```

### Text

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.text.TextConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.text.Text

### CSV

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.csv.CsvConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.csv.Csv

### JSON

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.json.JsonConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.json.Json

### Parquet

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.parquet.ParquetConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.parquet.Parquet

### Arrow

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.arrow.ArrowConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.arrow.Arrow

### SQL

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.sql.SqlConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.sql.Sql

### Images

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.imagefolder.ImageFolderConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.imagefolder.ImageFolder

### Audio

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.audiofolder.AudioFolderConfig

[[autodoc]] datasets.packaged_modules.audiofolder.AudioFolder