## TL;DR

I tried adding it to the HuggingFace "secrets" list, but that didn't work. [image] Maybe there needs to be an option to pass in an API key or read it from an OS environment variable? (instead of entering the API key interactively)

## Steps

1. [xke (reporter)]: To make Weave auth work on HuggingFace Spaces, name the secret WANDB_API_KEY (not API_KEY) so it is picked up from env. The reporter confirmed it works after that; also delete ~/.netrc locally so only the env key is used.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Issue wandb/weave#1741 (closed, 6 comments): I was using weave for an app on my local machine. Use this skill when you run into "Cannot use Weave with HuggingFace?".

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## Versions

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## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

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