# AutoTokenizer 404 error issue **URL:** **Author:** ![riasatislam32424](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@riasatislam32424](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Friasatislam32424)%5C **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:50am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fautotokenizer-404-error-issue%2F169085%2F1 "2025-10-10T11:50:24Z") whenever im trying to declare AutoTokenizer with any model be it roberta-base or distilbert-base-uncased, i am getting this error always. How to fix this * * * HTTPStatusError Traceback (most recent call last) /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_http.py in hf\_raise\_for\_status(response, endpoint\_name) 556 → 557 def \_curlify(request: requests.PreparedRequest) → str: 558 “”"Convert a `requests.PreparedRequest` into a curl command (str). /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/httpx/\_models.py in raise\_for\_status(self) 828 message = message.format(self, error\_type=error\_type) → 829 raise HTTPStatusError(message, request=request, response=self) 830 HTTPStatusError: Client error ‘404 Not Found’ for url ‘[https://huggingface.co/api/models/google-bert/bert-base-cased/tree/main/additional\_chat\_templates?recursive=false&expand=false’](https://huggingface.co/api/models/google-bert/bert-base-cased/tree/main/additional_chat_templates?recursive=false&expand=false%E2%80%99) The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: RemoteEntryNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last) /tmp/ipykernel\_37/974764345.py in \() 2 train\_labels = df[“generated”] 3 model\_name = “google-bert/bert-base-cased” ----\> 4 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from\_pretrained(model\_name, trust\_remote\_code = False, use\_fast = True) /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/transformers/models/auto/tokenization\_auto.py in from\_pretrained(cls, pretrained\_model\_name\_or\_path, \*inputs, \*\*kwargs) /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/transformers/tokenization\_utils\_base.py in from\_pretrained(cls, pretrained\_model\_name\_or\_path, cache\_dir, force\_download, local\_files\_only, token, revision, trust\_remote\_code, \*init\_inputs, \*\*kwargs) 1955 single\_file\_id = file\_id 1956 else: → 1957 # At this point pretrained\_model\_name\_or\_path is either a directory or a model identifier name 1958 additional\_files\_names = { 1959 “added\_tokens\_file”: ADDED\_TOKENS\_FILE, # kept only for legacy /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py in list\_repo\_templates(repo\_id, local\_files\_only, revision, cache\_dir) 159 def is\_remote\_url(url\_or\_filename): 160 parsed = urlparse(url\_or\_filename) → 161 return parsed.scheme in (“http”, “https”) 162 163 /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py in (.0) 159 def is\_remote\_url(url\_or\_filename): 160 parsed = urlparse(url\_or\_filename) → 161 return parsed.scheme in (“http”, “https”) 162 163 /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/huggingface\_hub/hf\_api.py in list\_repo\_tree(self, repo\_id, path\_in\_repo, recursive, expand, revision, repo\_type, token) 3050 “”" 3051 return [ → 3052 f.rfilename 3053 for f in self.list\_repo\_tree( 3054 repo\_id=repo\_id, recursive=True, revision=revision, repo\_type=repo\_type, token=token /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_pagination.py in paginate(path, params, headers) 35 session = get\_session() 36 r = session.get(path, params=params, headers=headers) —\> 37 hf\_raise\_for\_status(r) 38 yield from r.json() 39 /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/huggingface\_hub/utils/\_http.py in hf\_raise\_for\_status(response, endpoint\_name) 569 570 for k, v in sorted(request.headers.items()): → 571 if k.lower() == “authorization”: 572 v = “” # Hide authorization header, no matter its value (can be Bearer, Key, etc.) 573 parts += [(“-H”, “{0}: {1}”.format(k, v))] RemoteEntryNotFoundError: 404 Client Error. (Request ID: Root=1-68e8f1dd-560fc9b74a22a3a463591f2f;d4e39f2d-838b-4965-bda7-efee2ead7f99) additional\_chat\_templates does not exist on “main” ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:55am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fautotokenizer-404-error-issue%2F169085%2F2 "2025-10-10T11:55:41Z")
[Some recent versions of Transoformers had bugs](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ferror-404-when-downloading-the-tokenizer%2F168993%2F2)%2C so they may be fixed in an update. `pip install -U transformers` ---
**Author:** ![riasatislam32424](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@riasatislam32424](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Friasatislam32424)%5C **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fautotokenizer-404-error-issue%2F169085%2F3 "2025-10-11T13:36:23Z")
> [@John6666](#): > > pip install -U transformers Thank you so much man, it works. Really means a lot ---
**Author:** ![drjk16](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/drjk16/32/55352_2.png) [@drjk16](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fdrjk16)%5C **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fautotokenizer-404-error-issue%2F169085%2F4 "2025-11-02T18:16:40Z")
Thank you so much, you are a life saver.