# How do you use the whoami endpoint?

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The whoami endpoint is listed on your public facing API page here: [Hub API Endpoints](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/endpoints)

However I cannot curl this endpoint. It always returns unauthorized.

There’s a been a stackoverflow question hanging around that matches my issue exactly, so I’ll link it here:

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70932914/hugging-face-whoami-endpoint-returns-unauthorized>

Is this endpoint intended to be usable? If so, how?

My intent was to check token validity before trying to use them to run models, so that I could quickly identify bad tokens.

Thanks for any help.

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Hey there! Thanks for raising!

The endpoint was updated to `whoami-v2`, it seems we missed updating that doc page. Here is a working example

```auto
curl https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2 -H "Authorization: Bearer your_token"

```

Note that we also have a Python library with a `whoami` method you can use if that’s useful. [huggingface\_hub/src/huggingface\_hub at main · huggingface/huggingface\_hub · GitHub](https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/tree/main/src/huggingface_hub)