# fiftyone.utils.lfw Utilities for working with the [Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset](http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw). Copyright 2017-2026, Voxel51, Inc.
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**Functions:** | [`download_lfw_dataset`](#fiftyone.utils.lfw.download_lfw_dataset)(dataset_dir[, ...]) | Downloads and extracts the Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------| ### fiftyone.utils.lfw.download_lfw_dataset(dataset_dir, scratch_dir=None, cleanup=True) Downloads and extracts the Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset. Any existing files are not re-downloaded. * **Parameters:** * **dataset_dir** – the directory to output the final dataset * **scratch_dir** (*None*) – a scratch directory to use to store temporary files * **cleanup** (*True*) – whether to cleanup the scratch directory after extraction