Account Issue: Persistent 401 Unauthorized Error on All Downloads

John6666 · June 24, 2025, 2:35am

Web browsers manage their own environments in complex ways behind the scenes, so it is best to think of them as separate environments from CLI. However, the fact that you can download files using a web browser suggests that this is not intentionally blocked.

Some errors can be identified immediately by their error code, but I think the causes of 401 errors are the most diverse on Hugging Face in terms of error code…
It could be a network issue, or it could be a case where the keyboard shortcut ctrl+v (ctrl+p on Mac) for copying and pasting is malfunctioning. There also seem to be cases where caches such as .netrc are causing problems.

In your case, “Invalid token” means that the server understands that you are trying to pass a token, but the content does not look like a token.
Personally, if the token doesn’t work even when hardcoded in the Python code, I think there might be an unknown bug. @Wauplin

github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub

huggingface-cli login doesn't work

opened 02:14PM - 20 Jan 25 UTC

closed 11:29AM - 21 Jan 25 UTC

rokai08

bug

### Describe the bug Firstly I apologize if it's really basic or trivial, but I… don't seem to understand how to login I'm trying to login with the huggingface-cli login and it keeps giving me the following ``` huggingface-cli login --token <THE_TOKEN> The token has not been saved to the git credentials helper. Pass `add_to_git_credential=True` in this function directly or `--add-to-git-credential` if using via `huggingface-cli` if you want to set the git credential as well. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py", line 406, in hf_raise_for_status response.raise_for_status() File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self) requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2 The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/hf_api.py", line 1633, in whoami hf_raise_for_status(r) File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py", line 477, in hf_raise_for_status raise _format(HfHubHTTPError, str(e), response) from e huggingface_hub.errors.HfHubHTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2 (Request ID: Root=1-678e5498-0b3b190044e69e0613e6cff6;d4ef20db-e33b-42cc-ac5c-5643c9e9b530) Invalid username or password. The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/bin/huggingface-cli", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ^^^^^^ File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/commands/huggingface_cli.py", line 57, in main service.run() File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/commands/user.py", line 153, in run login( File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py", line 101, in inner_f return f(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py", line 31, in inner_f return f(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py", line 126, in login _login(token, add_to_git_credential=add_to_git_credential) File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py", line 404, in _login token_info = whoami(token) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py", line 114, in _inner_fn return fn(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/appsinacup/AlexStuff/ComfyUI/imgaienv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface_hub/hf_api.py", line 1635, in whoami raise HTTPError( requests.exceptions.HTTPError: Invalid user token. If you didn't pass a user token, make sure you are properly logged in by executing `huggingface-cli login`, and if you did pass a user token, double-check it's correct. ``` also the token seems to work when testing it with ``` curl -i https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <THE TOKEN>" HTTP/2 200 content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8 content-length: 382 date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:08:15 GMT x-powered-by: huggingface-moon cross-origin-opener-policy: same-origin referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin x-request-id: Root=1-678e58cf-35223b3a7ca3d73215320b2d access-control-allow-origin: https://huggingface.co vary: Origin access-control-expose-headers: X-Repo-Commit,X-Request-Id,X-Error-Code,X-Error-Message,X-Total-Count,ETag,Link,Accept-Ranges,Content-Range,X-Xet-Access-Token,X-Xet-Token-Expiration,X-Xet-Refresh-Route,X-Xet-Cas-Url,X-Xet-Hash etag: W/"17e-uXTz1hbj/22y/TAql9VBBdqElGo" x-cache: Miss from cloudfront via: 1.1 e76c434a546615d1c8c0e096c588e7d4.cloudfront.net (CloudFront) x-amz-cf-pop: OTP50-P2 x-amz-cf-id: 4T2TKFmHXP4ma4JeDw0sy4znD0ocV6p9kuv31krBlI0z4kSYbEGaaQ== {"type":"user","id":"63dcf661f37111482522cda7","name":"propolys","fullname":"Alex","email":"alexander_00012@yahoo.com","emailVerified":true,"canPay":false,"periodEnd":null,"isPro":false,"avatarUrl":"/avatars/eb4ec70ff9803cb66fab23117ff45b02.svg","orgs":[],"auth":{"type":"access_token","accessToken":{"displayName":"Comfyread","role":"read","createdAt":"2025-01-20T13:02:07.690Z"}}} ``` Thank you for any help, and sorry again if it's a noob question ### Reproduction _No response_ ### Logs ```shell ``` ### System info ```shell - huggingface_hub version: 0.27.1 - Platform: Linux-6.8.0-51-generic-aarch64-with-glibc2.39 - Python version: 3.12.3 - Running in iPython ?: No - Running in notebook ?: No - Running in Google Colab ?: No - Running in Google Colab Enterprise ?: No - Token path ?: /home/appsinacup/.cache/huggingface/token - Has saved token ?: False - Configured git credential helpers: - FastAI: N/A - Tensorflow: N/A - Torch: 2.6.0.dev20241224+cu126 - Jinja2: 3.1.3 - Graphviz: N/A - keras: N/A - Pydot: 3.0.3 - Pillow: 11.1.0 - hf_transfer: N/A - gradio: N/A - tensorboard: N/A - numpy: 1.26.4 - pydantic: 2.10.3 - aiohttp: 3.11.10 - ENDPOINT: https://huggingface.co - HF_HUB_CACHE: /home/appsinacup/.cache/huggingface/hub - HF_ASSETS_CACHE: /home/appsinacup/.cache/huggingface/assets - HF_TOKEN_PATH: /home/appsinacup/.cache/huggingface/token - HF_STORED_TOKENS_PATH: /home/appsinacup/.cache/huggingface/stored_tokens - HF_HUB_OFFLINE: False - HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY: False - HF_HUB_DISABLE_PROGRESS_BARS: None - HF_HUB_DISABLE_SYMLINKS_WARNING: False - HF_HUB_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_WARNING: False - HF_HUB_DISABLE_IMPLICIT_TOKEN: False - HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER: False - HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT: 10 - HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT: 10 ```

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