In a lot of cases, you must be authenticated with a Hugging Face account to interact with
the Hub: download private repos, upload files, create PRs,...
[Create an account](https://huggingface.co/join) if you don't already have one, and then sign in
to get your [User Access Token](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-tokens) from
your [Settings page](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens). The User Access Token is
used to authenticate your identity to the Hub.  
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