# 'NoneType' Object Error and Token Authorization Issue in OpenAI API Integration

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/nonetype-object-error-and-token-authorization-issue-in-openai-api-integration/133983>\
**Category:** 🤗Tokenizers\
**Created:** [January 2, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/nonetype-object-error-and-token-authorization-issue-in-openai-api-integration/133983 "2025-01-02T12:18:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nillly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/nillly/32/38501_2.png) [@Nillly](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Nillly)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/nonetype-object-error-and-token-authorization-issue-in-openai-api-integration/133983/1 "2025-01-02T12:18:58Z")

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Hello,

I hope this message finds you well. I am currently developing a project that integrates both RunPod’s API and Hugging Face’s open-source tools. While implementing the OpenAI API, I encountered the following issues:

**Issue Description:**

1. **Previous Error:** Initially, I was receiving a 500 Internal Server Error. After consulting with RunPod’s support team, this issue was resolved.
2. **Current Error:** My model, `MODEL_NAME = 'meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct'`, is gated. I suspect there might be an issue with my Hugging Face token. When executing the following code:

python

Kodu kopyala

```auto
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model_name,
    messages=input_messages,
    temperature=temperature,
    top_p=0.8,
    max_tokens=2000,
)
print(response)

```

I receive the following error message:

csharp

Kodu kopyala

```auto
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

```

**Troubleshooting Steps Taken:**

- **Validation:** Verified that the API key, model name, and input messages are correctly specified.
- **Response Check:** Printed the `response` object to inspect its contents; it returns `None`.
- **Conditional Checks:** Implemented checks to handle `None` values gracefully, but the issue persists.
- **Token Verification:** Checked the validity of my Hugging Face token using the following code:

python

Kodu kopyala

```auto
import requests

token = "YOUR_HUGGING_FACE_TOKEN"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}
response = requests.get("https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2", headers=headers)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Token is valid.")
else:
    print("Token is invalid or unauthorized access.")

```

The output indicated: “Token is invalid or unauthorized access.”

**Additional Information:**

- **Environment:** Utilizing RunPod’s API services alongside Hugging Face’s open-source tools.
- **Objective:** Seeking guidance on resolving the ‘NoneType’ error and addressing the token authorization issue to successfully retrieve and process responses from the OpenAI API.

I have reviewed similar issues and discussions, such as the one on the Hugging Face forums titled [“Invalid tokenpassed?”](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/invalid-token-passed/22711), but have not found a solution that resolves my specific problem.

Could you please provide insights or recommendations to address these issues? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your support.

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**Author:** ![mahmutc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/mahmutc/32/64626_2.png) [@mahmutc](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/mahmutc)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/nonetype-object-error-and-token-authorization-issue-in-openai-api-integration/133983/2 "2025-01-02T18:09:44Z")

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hi @Nillly

You’re giving a token that starts with ‘hf\_’, right?

```auto
import requests

token = "YOUR_HUGGING_FACE_TOKEN"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}
response = requests.get("https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2", headers=headers)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Token is valid.")
else:
    print("Token is invalid or unauthorized access.")

```

And regarding browsing to [https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2](https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2), can you check and see if it displays your username?

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**Author:** ![Nillly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/nillly/32/38501_2.png) [@Nillly](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Nillly)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/nonetype-object-error-and-token-authorization-issue-in-openai-api-integration/133983/3 "2025-01-04T17:04:22Z")

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Thanks Mahmut, ı handled a problem by myself (I think I was setting the new api token and restart all of my programs then after that everything has been perfect. Also I tried this solution as well ) I have passing the embeddings and then I got the same error again … When ı write this code output = embedding\_client.embeddings.create(input=user\_prompt, model = “BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5”) I am getting this error " AuthenticationError: Error code: 401 - {‘error’: {‘message’: 'Incorrect API key provided:" after that I solved the problem from restricted settings in my Infinity Vector Embeddings server I ticked the read/write. This time I’ve got a new problem 403 error permission denied… Why did I get the same error when I give the new env url. I don’t understand that.

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**Author:** ![Nillly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/nillly/32/38501_2.png) [@Nillly](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Nillly)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/nonetype-object-error-and-token-authorization-issue-in-openai-api-integration/133983/4 "2025-01-04T17:14:55Z")

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I solved that again… Server wanted to me changing the first request inputs. This is so scary . I hope this solution helps the other people 😊

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/original/2X/d/de4155eb4aa4108ecb32a1389d7cc37ae69f88b7.png) [@system](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/nonetype-object-error-and-token-authorization-issue-in-openai-api-integration/133983/5 "2025-01-05T05:15:19Z")

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