diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0dec835b..05c6240b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ clap = { version = "4.2.4", features = ["derive"] }
 cudarc = { git = "https://github.com/LaurentMazare/cudarc.git", branch = "cublas-bf16", features = ["f16"] }
 # TODO: Switch back to the official gemm implementation if we manage to upstream the changes.
 gemm = { git = "https://github.com/LaurentMazare/gemm.git" }
-hf-hub = "0.1.3"
+hf-hub = "0.2.0"
 half = { version = "2.3.1", features = ["num-traits", "rand_distr"] }
 intel-mkl-src = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["mkl-static-lp64-iomp"] }
 libc = { version = "0.2.147" }
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs
index 6672ad09..79c78968 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ impl Args {
             )
         } else {
             let api = Api::new()?;
+            let api = api.repo(repo);
             (
-                api.get(&repo, "config.json")?,
-                api.get(&repo, "tokenizer.json")?,
-                api.get(&repo, "model.safetensors")?,
+                api.get("config.json")?,
+                api.get("tokenizer.json")?,
+                api.get("model.safetensors")?,
             )
         };
         let config = std::fs::read_to_string(config_filename)?;
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs
index 3a284c86..a01191a5 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs
@@ -123,14 +123,18 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let device = candle_examples::device(args.cpu)?;
     let start = std::time::Instant::now();
     let api = Api::new()?;
-    let repo = Repo::with_revision(args.model_id, RepoType::Model, args.revision);
-    let tokenizer_filename = api.get(&repo, "tokenizer.json")?;
+    let repo = api.repo(Repo::with_revision(
+        args.model_id,
+        RepoType::Model,
+        args.revision,
+    ));
+    let tokenizer_filename = repo.get("tokenizer.json")?;
     let mut filenames = vec![];
     for rfilename in [
         "model-00001-of-00002.safetensors",
         "model-00002-of-00002.safetensors",
     ] {
-        let filename = api.get(&repo, rfilename)?;
+        let filename = repo.get(rfilename)?;
         filenames.push(filename);
     }
     println!("retrieved the files in {:?}", start.elapsed());
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs
index 582ac3f8..d9d1e21a 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use clap::Parser;
 use candle::{DType, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::VarBuilder;
 use candle_transformers::generation::LogitsProcessor;
-use hf_hub::{api::sync::Api, Repo, RepoType};
+use hf_hub::api::sync::Api;
 
 mod model;
 use model::{Config, Llama};
@@ -146,14 +146,14 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
                 }
             });
             println!("loading the model weights from {model_id}");
-            let repo = Repo::new(model_id, RepoType::Model);
-            let tokenizer_filename = api.get(&repo, "tokenizer.json")?;
+            let api = api.model(model_id);
+            let tokenizer_filename = api.get("tokenizer.json")?;
             let mut filenames = vec![];
             for rfilename in [
                 "model-00001-of-00002.safetensors",
                 "model-00002-of-00002.safetensors",
             ] {
-                let filename = api.get(&repo, rfilename)?;
+                let filename = api.get(rfilename)?;
                 filenames.push(filename);
             }
 
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs
index 079424e3..c03779e7 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs
@@ -282,28 +282,23 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             std::path::PathBuf::from(args.input.expect("You didn't specify a file to read from yet, are using a local model, please add `--input example.wav` to read some audio file")),
         )
     } else {
-        let repo = Repo::with_revision(model_id, RepoType::Model, revision);
         let api = Api::new()?;
+        let dataset = api.dataset("Narsil/candle-examples".to_string());
+        let repo = api.repo(Repo::with_revision(model_id, RepoType::Model, revision));
         let sample = if let Some(input) = args.input {
             if let Some(sample) = input.strip_prefix("sample:") {
-                api.get(
-                    &Repo::new("Narsil/candle-examples".to_string(), RepoType::Dataset),
-                    &format!("samples_{sample}.wav"),
-                )?
+                dataset.get(&format!("samples_{sample}.wav"))?
             } else {
                 std::path::PathBuf::from(input)
             }
         } else {
             println!("No audio file submitted: Downloading https://huggingface.co/datasets/Narsil/candle_demo/blob/main/samples_jfk.wav");
-            api.get(
-                &Repo::new("Narsil/candle-examples".to_string(), RepoType::Dataset),
-                "samples_jfk.wav",
-            )?
+            dataset.get("samples_jfk.wav")?
         };
         (
-            api.get(&repo, "config.json")?,
-            api.get(&repo, "tokenizer.json")?,
-            api.get(&repo, "model.safetensors")?,
+            repo.get("config.json")?,
+            repo.get("tokenizer.json")?,
+            repo.get("model.safetensors")?,
             sample,
         )
     };