Hello, I am getting a persistent 401 Unauthorized error in Google Colab when trying to download any gated model, such as meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct. I have already confirmed on the model’s webpage that I have been granted access. The error continues even after I generate a brand new write …

If the problem is account-specific, I think it would be quicker to contact Hugging Face support. website@huggingface.co Another case that occasionally occurs is that extra information is added when copying and pasting tokens. This is more likely to happen when using shortcut keys. In addition, the…

Persistent 401 Unauthorized Error on Gated Models

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John6666 July 20, 2025, 2:22am 2

First, try whoami-v2, which should make verification easy.

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Persistent 401 Unauthorized Error on Gated Models

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