# Having issues accessing tokenizer\_config.json for T5
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**Author:**  [@RoyalCities](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FRoyalCities)%5C
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:19am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhaving-issues-accessing-tokenizer-config-json-for-t5%2F138851%2F1 "2025-02-04T04:19:51Z")
Getting the following error about not being able to access tokenizer\_config.json…which doesnt appear to exist anymore?
```
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
```
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: [https://huggingface.co/t5-base/resolve/main/tokenizer\_config.json](https://huggingface.co/t5-base/resolve/main/tokenizer_config.json)
Repository Not Found for url: [https://huggingface.co/t5-base/resolve/main/tokenizer\_config.json](https://huggingface.co/t5-base/resolve/main/tokenizer_config.json).
For context this repo and existing code worked prior but for one reason or another the in-built HF downloader does not tag the correct config file for the repo? Or it’s been removed. Any assistance would be helpful.
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**Author:**  [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 7:14am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhaving-issues-accessing-tokenizer-config-json-for-t5%2F138851%2F2 "2025-02-04T07:14:01Z")
google-t5/t5-base
How about this format for the repo name, not just t5-base?
> **[google-t5/t5-base · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/google-t5/t5-base)**
>
> We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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**Author:**  [@ajsbsd](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fajsbsd)%5C
**Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhaving-issues-accessing-tokenizer-config-json-for-t5%2F138851%2F4 "2025-05-24T20:57:18Z")
Can confirm google/t5-flan-base was the only thing I could load on HF for fine-tuning.
The other models I had to download locally to fine-tune/train.
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**Author:**  [@Pimpcat-AU](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FPimpcat-AU)%5C
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhaving-issues-accessing-tokenizer-config-json-for-t5%2F138851%2F5 "2025-06-10T20:09:47Z")
Fix:
```
The repo is private or the file is missing.
Log in to Hugging Face with huggingface-cli login and set your token.
Or, use "t5-small" or "t5-base"—official repos, which are public and have the config file.
Example:
```
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from\_pretrained(“t5-base”)
Solution provided by Triskel Data Deterministic AI.