Is there a specific endpoint or method available to verify if a given API token is valid or not ? I’m working on a project where user has to provide hugging face API token. Before calling the model, I want to check if provided API is valid or not ?

Validating Hugging Face API Token

ademait July 19, 2023, 11:35am 2

Hi @kenny91 , the endpoint is api/whoami-v2. I used this one some time ago.

You can also refer to this Stackoverflow thread.

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