sentence-transformers: HTTPError: 403 Client Error:

I get a request error and I do not know why.


[W 2021-02-02 18:43:15,951] Trial 0 failed because of the following error: HTTPError('403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://sbert.net/models/bert-base-german-dbmdz-uncased.zip',)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/optuna/_optimize.py", line 211, in _run_trial
    value_or_values = func(trial)
  File "<ipython-input-6-af5cb77f5b44>", line 40, in objective
    model = SentenceTransformer(model_name)  # distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2  distilbert-multilingual-nli-stsb-quora-ranking
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/sentence_transformers/SentenceTransformer.py", line 92, in __init__
    raise e
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/sentence_transformers/SentenceTransformer.py", line 75, in __init__
    http_get(model_url, zip_save_path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/sentence_transformers/util.py", line 201, in http_get
    req.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 941, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://sbert.net/models/bert-base-german-dbmdz-uncased.zip

HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://sbert.net/models/bert-base-german-dbmdz-uncased.zip

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There is currently an issue with the huggingface model hub, that specific files cannot be accessed. This affects each model and each user.

We currently look into this.

Have a look at: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/issues/1297

Current work-around is to access https://sbert.net/models and to download the needed model from there, unzip it and load it from disc.

nreimers on Dec 6, 2021

I have a similar error although it was the first time I requested it today. Is there another limit?

model2 = SentenceTransformer(‘all-mpnet-base-v2’) Traceback (most recent call last): File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module> File “C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\sentence_transformers\SentenceTransformer.py”, line 84, in init ignore_files=[‘flax_model.msgpack’, ‘rust_model.ot’, ‘tf_model.h5’]) File “C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\sentence_transformers\util.py”, line 460, in snapshot_download user_agent=user_agent, File “C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\file_download.py”, line 351, in cached_download r.raise_for_status() File “C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py”, line 943, in raise_for_status raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self) requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2/resolve/86eb780758622d085bac2d7f6aea99c157a5ee28/.gitattributes

DirkWW on Dec 6, 2021