# Hugging face api key error **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [July 16, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hugging-face-api-key-error/163270 "2025-07-16T11:07:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Neha642](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Neha642](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Neha642)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hugging-face-api-key-error/163270/1 "2025-07-16T11:07:15Z")
File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\utils\_deprecation.py”, line 101, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\utils\_deprecation.py”, line 31, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\_login.py”, line 130, in login interpreter\_login(new\_session=new\_session) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\utils\_deprecation.py”, line 101, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\utils\_deprecation.py”, line 31, in inner\_f return f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\_login.py”, line 290, in interpreter\_login \_login(token=token, add\_to\_git\_credential=add\_to\_git\_credential) ~~~~~~ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\_login.py”, line 404, in \_login token\_info = whoami(token) File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\utils\_validators.py”, line 114, in \_inner\_fn return fn(\*args, \*\*kwargs) File “D:\Langchain Models\venv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface\_hub\hf\_api.py”, line 1788, 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:** [July 16, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hugging-face-api-key-error/163270/2 "2025-07-16T11:33:00Z")
There are various errors that may occur when passing tokens, and various ways to deal with them. Try various methods. > > > \### 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 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 \ > 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 \" > 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 > \`\`\`