The `use_auth_token` argument is deprecated and will be removed in v5 of Transformers

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Hi there,
I am using the use_auth_token to download weights of my private models. I saw that it will be deprecated and I would like to know how I will be able to authenticate without using huggingface-cli. I want to have everything in a python script.

Thank you

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Yes, I subscribe to this. use_auth_token will be deprecated. But how to authenticate instead?

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Hi @LetiP and @BenTouss,

The deprecation simply renames the argument use_auth_token to token

Read more here

cc @Wauplin, maybe we could improve the docs and state deprecated thus do this instead example?

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Thank you very much! This works. :+1:

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Thanks for the ping @radames. I opened a PR in transformers to make the warning message more explicit: Provide alternative when warning on use_auth_token by Wauplin · Pull Request #27105 · huggingface/transformers · GitHub

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