diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 9369548c67..eabf66afed 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -37,3 +37,4 @@ optuna
 opencv-python-headless
 onnx>=1.13.0
 onnxruntime; python_version <= '3.10'
+huggingface_hub
diff --git a/docs/source/installation.md b/docs/source/installation.md
index c3e7297da6..3a8f2b07d9 100644
--- a/docs/source/installation.md
+++ b/docs/source/installation.md
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 		- [Uninstall the packages](#uninstall-the-packages)
 	- [From conda-forge](#from-conda-forge)
 	- [From GitHub](#from-github)
-		- [Option 1 (as a part of your system-wide module)](#option-1-as-a-part-of-your-system-wide-module)
-		- [Option 2 (editable installation)](#option-2-editable-installation)
+		- [Option 1 (as a part of your system-wide module):](#option-1-as-a-part-of-your-system-wide-module)
+		- [Option 2 (editable installation):](#option-2-editable-installation)
 	- [Validating the install](#validating-the-install)
 	- [MONAI version string](#monai-version-string)
 	- [From DockerHub](#from-dockerhub)
@@ -254,10 +254,10 @@ Since MONAI v0.2.0, the extras syntax such as `pip install 'monai[nibabel]'` is
 - The options are
 
 ```
-[nibabel, skimage, pillow, tensorboard, gdown, ignite, torchvision, itk, tqdm, lmdb, psutil, cucim, openslide, pandas, einops, transformers, mlflow, clearml, matplotlib, tensorboardX, tifffile, imagecodecs, pyyaml, fire, jsonschema, ninja, pynrrd, pydicom, h5py, nni, optuna, onnx, onnxruntime]
+[nibabel, skimage, pillow, tensorboard, gdown, ignite, torchvision, itk, tqdm, lmdb, psutil, cucim, openslide, pandas, einops, transformers, mlflow, clearml, matplotlib, tensorboardX, tifffile, imagecodecs, pyyaml, fire, jsonschema, ninja, pynrrd, pydicom, h5py, nni, optuna, onnx, onnxruntime, huggingface_hub]
 ```
 
 which correspond to `nibabel`, `scikit-image`, `pillow`, `tensorboard`,
-`gdown`, `pytorch-ignite`, `torchvision`, `itk`, `tqdm`, `lmdb`, `psutil`, `cucim`, `openslide-python`, `pandas`, `einops`, `transformers`, `mlflow`, `clearml`, `matplotlib`, `tensorboardX`, `tifffile`, `imagecodecs`, `pyyaml`, `fire`, `jsonschema`, `ninja`, `pynrrd`, `pydicom`, `h5py`, `nni`, `optuna`, `onnx`, `onnxruntime`, respectively.
+`gdown`, `pytorch-ignite`, `torchvision`, `itk`, `tqdm`, `lmdb`, `psutil`, `cucim`, `openslide-python`, `pandas`, `einops`, `transformers`, `mlflow`, `clearml`, `matplotlib`, `tensorboardX`, `tifffile`, `imagecodecs`, `pyyaml`, `fire`, `jsonschema`, `ninja`, `pynrrd`, `pydicom`, `h5py`, `nni`, `optuna`, `onnx`, `onnxruntime`, `huggingface_hub`, respectively.
 
 - `pip install 'monai[all]'` installs all the optional dependencies.
diff --git a/monai/bundle/scripts.py b/monai/bundle/scripts.py
index b3e1174b3f..7cabc0cc2b 100644
--- a/monai/bundle/scripts.py
+++ b/monai/bundle/scripts.py
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 Checkpoint, has_ignite = optional_import("ignite.handlers", IgniteInfo.OPT_IMPORT_VERSION, min_version, "Checkpoint")
 requests_get, has_requests = optional_import("requests", name="get")
 onnx, _ = optional_import("onnx")
+huggingface_hub, _ = optional_import("huggingface_hub")
 
 logger = get_logger(module_name=__name__)
 
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index f02aa48ba9..3f2973d005 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -51,3 +51,4 @@ git+https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MetricsReloaded@monai-support#egg=MetricsRe
 onnx>=1.13.0
 onnxruntime; python_version <= '3.10'
 typeguard<3  # https://github.com/microsoft/nni/issues/5457
+huggingface_hub
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 0670b11eec..029ea08513 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ all =
     optuna
     onnx>=1.13.0
     onnxruntime; python_version <= '3.10'
+    huggingface_hub
 nibabel =
     nibabel
 ninja =
@@ -145,6 +146,8 @@ onnx =
 # # workaround https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/issues/5882
 # MetricsReloaded =
 #     MetricsReloaded @ git+https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MetricsReloaded@monai-support#egg=MetricsReloaded
+huggingface_hub =
+    huggingface_hub
 
 [flake8]
 select = B,C,E,F,N,P,T4,W,B9