Add metadata when using API to retrieve bundles

[RomanFenioux]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have developped a tool that allows user to interactively retrieve model-zoo bundles and run them on their medical scan within 3D slicer (an medical image processing and vizualisation application).
I retrieve the available model from the api : https://api.github.com/repos/Project-MONAI/model-zoo/releases/tags/hosting_storage_v1

EDIT : I am now using the hugging_face api : https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=MONAI

I would like to present more information about the available models before downloading the bundles (which are heavy). Currently I only have access to the name and versions (extracted from the asset name) using the api linked above. In particular, I would like to retrieve the bundle description to help my users understand what each bundle can do.

I believe this would benefit anyone willing to provide access to the bundles from the Model Zoo through the api.

Describe the solution you'd like
My understanding is that this api uses the model_info.json file. I think adding the bundle description to this file would solve my problem, but maybe we could consider adding other relevant metadata (authors, name, version, task, copyright, dependencies...).

Describe alternatives you've considered
I could download the metadata.json files for each model from the repo, but that would create many unnecessary request. It would be much cleaner to simply have access to this information in a single request, without downloading all those files.

Please let me now if there are other alternatives available to achieve my goal (retrieve the list of available models with their names, versions and description) that I might have failed to consider.

[yiheng-wang-nv]

Hi @RomanFenioux , all latest versions are stored in huggingface instead of github release, it would be good if you can enhance new versions.

[RomanFenioux]

Thank you, I had a look at the huggingface api and tested it.
The issue I raised about metadata still apply. Bundle metadatas are not exposed by the REST api (or through the huggingface_hub python package) so again the only solution is to download the metadata.json file.