diff --git a/src/transformers/hf_api.py b/src/transformers/hf_api.py
index c8da5615e..c62cb6f05 100644
--- a/src/transformers/hf_api.py
+++ b/src/transformers/hf_api.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 import io
 import os
 from os.path import expanduser
-from typing import List
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
 
 import requests
 from tqdm import tqdm
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ ENDPOINT = "https://huggingface.co"
 
 
 class S3Obj:
+    """
+    Data structure that represents a file belonging to the current user.
+    """
+
     def __init__(self, filename: str, LastModified: str, ETag: str, Size: int, **kwargs):
         self.filename = filename
         self.LastModified = LastModified
@@ -41,6 +45,50 @@ class PresignedUrl:
         self.type = type  # mime-type to send to S3.
 
 
+class S3Object:
+    """
+    Data structure that represents a public file accessible on our S3.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        key: str,  # S3 object key
+        etag: str,
+        lastModified: str,
+        size: int,
+        rfilename: str,  # filename relative to config.json
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        self.key = key
+        self.etag = etag
+        self.lastModified = lastModified
+        self.size = size
+        self.rfilename = rfilename
+
+
+class ModelInfo:
+    """
+    Info about a public model accessible from our S3.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        modelId: str,  # id of model
+        key: str,  # S3 object key of config.json
+        author: Optional[str] = None,
+        downloads: Optional[int] = None,
+        tags: List[str] = [],
+        siblings: List[Dict] = [],
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        self.modelId = modelId
+        self.key = key
+        self.author = author
+        self.downloads = downloads
+        self.tags = tags
+        self.siblings = [S3Object(**x) for x in siblings]
+
+
 class HfApi:
     def __init__(self, endpoint=None):
         self.endpoint = endpoint if endpoint is not None else ENDPOINT
@@ -129,6 +177,16 @@ class HfApi:
         r = requests.delete(path, headers={"authorization": "Bearer {}".format(token)}, json={"filename": filename})
         r.raise_for_status()
 
+    def model_list(self) -> List[ModelInfo]:
+        """
+        Get the public list of all the models on huggingface, including the community models
+        """
+        path = "{}/api/models".format(self.endpoint)
+        r = requests.get(path)
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        d = r.json()
+        return [ModelInfo(**x) for x in d]
+
 
 class TqdmProgressFileReader:
     """
diff --git a/tests/test_hf_api.py b/tests/test_hf_api.py
index c79139095..e1537bbfd 100644
--- a/tests/test_hf_api.py
+++ b/tests/test_hf_api.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import unittest
 import requests
 from requests.exceptions import HTTPError
 
-from transformers.hf_api import HfApi, HfFolder, PresignedUrl, S3Obj
+from transformers.hf_api import HfApi, HfFolder, ModelInfo, PresignedUrl, S3Obj
 
 
 USER = "__DUMMY_TRANSFORMERS_USER__"
@@ -36,10 +36,11 @@ FILES = [
         os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "fixtures/empty.txt"),
     ),
 ]
+ENDPOINT_STAGING = "https://moon-staging.huggingface.co"
 
 
 class HfApiCommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
-    _api = HfApi(endpoint="https://moon-staging.huggingface.co")
+    _api = HfApi(endpoint=ENDPOINT_STAGING)
 
 
 class HfApiLoginTest(HfApiCommonTest):
@@ -92,6 +93,18 @@ class HfApiEndpointsTest(HfApiCommonTest):
             self.assertIsInstance(o, S3Obj)
 
 
+class HfApiPublicTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_staging_model_list(self):
+        _api = HfApi(endpoint=ENDPOINT_STAGING)
+        _ = _api.model_list()
+
+    def test_model_list(self):
+        _api = HfApi()
+        models = _api.model_list()
+        self.assertGreater(len(models), 100)
+        self.assertIsInstance(models[0], ModelInfo)
+
+
 class HfFolderTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_token_workflow(self):
         """