# API Token not being recognized **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [May 24, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/api-token-not-being-recognized/156624 "2025-05-24T14:14:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mj6ux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@mj6ux](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/mj6ux)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/api-token-not-being-recognized/156624/1 "2025-05-24T14:14:52Z")
I am having difficulty logging into my account using huggingface-cli login, but my token is not being recognized as a valid token. I have created several new tokens but I’m still getting a permission denied error. The specifics: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_http.py”, line 409, in hf\_raise\_for\_status response.raise\_for\_status() File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/models.py”, line 1024, in raise\_for\_status raise HTTPError(http\_error\_msg, response=self) requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: [https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2](https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2) The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/hf\_api.py”, line 1664, in whoami hf\_raise\_for\_status(r) File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_http.py”, line 481, in hf\_raise\_for\_status raise \_format(HfHubHTTPError, str(e), response) from e huggingface\_hub.errors.HfHubHTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: [https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2](https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2) The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/bin/huggingface-cli”, line 8, in sys.exit(main()) ^^^^^^ File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/commands/huggingface\_cli.py”, line 57, in main service.run() File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/commands/user.py”, line 153, in run login( File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_deprecation.py”, line 101, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_deprecation.py”, line 31, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/\_login.py”, line 130, in login interpreter\_login(new\_session=new\_session) File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_deprecation.py”, line 101, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_deprecation.py”, line 31, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/\_login.py”, line 290, in interpreter\_login \_login(token=token, add\_to\_git\_credential=add\_to\_git\_credential) File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/\_login.py”, line 404, in \_login token\_info = whoami(token) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_validators.py”, line 114, in \_inner\_fn return fn(\*args, \*\*kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/mj6ux/.conda/envs/coconut/lib/python3.12/site-packages/huggingface\_hub/hf\_api.py”, line 1677, in whoami raise HTTPError(error\_message, request=e.request, response=e.response) from e requests.exceptions.HTTPError: Invalid user token. ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/api-token-not-being-recognized/156624/2 "2025-05-24T23:08:08Z")
401 errors are usually caused by network errors or environment variables, but there seem to be rare cases like this. > [@401 Error when trying to upload model from local machine](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/401-error-when-trying-to-upload-model-from-local-machine/156020): > > Hello everyone, im currently training LLMs locally with the Unsloth framework. After training they provide a way to upload your model to the Huggingface Hub. model.push\_to\_hub\_gguf( “LuuWee/modelspacename”, # Change hf to your username! tokenizer, quantization\_method = [“q4\_k\_m”, “q8\_0”, “q5\_k\_m”,], token = “hf\_access\_token”, ) For it to upload you need to add your username and an Accesstoken in the request. This worked for me when i trained in Google Colab. I tried the same thing in my … > [@Huggingface-cli login issue](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/huggingface-cli-login-issue/136547/3): > > i seemed to have in ~/.netrc credentials for [huggingface.co](http://huggingface.co), which i think they might have overridden my Authorization header. a smiple rm ~/.netrc did the trick > i seemed to have in `~/.netrc` credentials for [huggingface.co](http://huggingface.co), which i think they might have overridden my Authorization header. > a smiple `rm ~/.netrc` did the trick