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title: Hugging Face OAuth 🤝 FastMCP
sidebarTitle: Hugging Face
description: Secure your FastMCP server with Hugging Face OAuth
icon: hugging-face
iconType: brands
---

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This guide shows you how to secure your FastMCP server using **Hugging Face OAuth**.
The `HuggingFaceProvider` uses FastMCP's [OAuth Proxy](/servers/auth/oauth-proxy)
pattern with Hugging Face's OAuth and OpenID Connect endpoints. It works with
manually created confidential apps, public PKCE apps, and Client ID Metadata
Documents (CIMD).

When deploying your MCP server to Hugging Face Spaces, Spaces can create and
manage the OAuth app for you.

## Configuration

### Prerequisites

Before you begin, you will need:

1. A **[Hugging Face account](https://huggingface.co/join)** with access to create OAuth apps
2. Your FastMCP server's URL (can be localhost for development, e.g., `http://localhost:8000`)

### Step 1: Create a Hugging Face OAuth app

Create an OAuth app from your [Hugging Face application settings](https://huggingface.co/settings/applications/new).
For details, see Hugging Face's [OAuth documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/oauth).

<Steps>
<Step title="Create the OAuth app">
    Go to your [Hugging Face application settings](https://huggingface.co/settings/applications/new)
    and create a new OAuth application.

    Choose a name users will recognize, then configure the redirect URL for
    your FastMCP server:

    - Development: `http://localhost:8000/auth/callback`
    - Production: `https://your-domain.com/auth/callback`

    <Warning>
    The redirect URL must match exactly. The default path is `/auth/callback`,
    but you can customize it using the `redirect_path` parameter. For
    production, use HTTPS.
    </Warning>
</Step>

<Step title="Save your credentials">
    After creating the app, save:

    - **Client ID**: The public identifier for your Hugging Face OAuth app
    - **Client Secret**: The app secret, if you created a confidential app

    <Tip>
    Store the client secret securely. Never commit it to version control. Use
    environment variables or a secrets manager in production.
    </Tip>
</Step>
</Steps>

### Step 2: Configure FastMCP

```python server.py
from fastmcp import FastMCP
from fastmcp.server.auth.providers.huggingface import HuggingFaceProvider

# The HuggingFaceProvider handles Hugging Face's opaque OAuth access tokens
# and stores user data in token claims.
auth_provider = HuggingFaceProvider(
    client_id="your-huggingface-client-id",        # Your Hugging Face OAuth app client ID
    client_secret="your-huggingface-client-secret", # Your Hugging Face OAuth app client secret
    base_url="http://localhost:8000",              # Must match your OAuth configuration
    required_scopes=["openid", "profile"],         # Default value
    # redirect_path="/auth/callback"               # Default value, customize if needed
)

mcp = FastMCP(name="Hugging Face Secured App", auth=auth_provider)


# Add a protected tool to test authentication
@mcp.tool
async def get_user_info() -> dict:
    """Returns information about the authenticated Hugging Face user."""
    from fastmcp.server.dependencies import get_access_token

    token = get_access_token()
    return {
        "subject": token.claims.get("sub"),
        "username": token.claims.get("preferred_username"),
        "profile": token.claims.get("profile"),
    }
```

## Public OAuth apps, DCR, and CIMD

Hugging Face supports public OAuth apps (no client secret). For public apps,
omit `client_secret` and provide a `jwt_signing_key` so FastMCP can sign its
own proxy tokens:

```python
auth_provider = HuggingFaceProvider(
    client_id="your-public-huggingface-client-id",
    base_url="http://localhost:8000",
    jwt_signing_key="replace-with-a-secure-secret",
)
```

MCP clients can use Dynamic Client Registration with your FastMCP server. The
`HuggingFaceProvider` inherits FastMCP's OAuth Proxy behavior, which handles
client registration locally and forwards authorization to Hugging Face using
your configured Hugging Face OAuth app. In other words, MCP clients register
with FastMCP, while FastMCP uses your Hugging Face `client_id` and optional
`client_secret` for the upstream OAuth flow.

You can also use a Client ID Metadata Document URL as the `client_id` when your
client metadata is hosted at a stable HTTPS URL:

```python
auth_provider = HuggingFaceProvider(
    client_id="https://your-client.example/.well-known/oauth-cimd",
    base_url="http://localhost:8000",
    jwt_signing_key="replace-with-a-secure-secret",
)
```

## Testing

### Running the Server

Start your server with HTTP transport:

```bash
fastmcp run server.py --transport http --port 8000
```

Your server is now running and protected by Hugging Face OAuth authentication.

### Testing with a Client

Create a test client that authenticates with your Hugging Face-protected server:

```python test_client.py
import asyncio
from fastmcp import Client


async def main():
    async with Client("http://localhost:8000/mcp", auth="oauth") as client:
        result = await client.call_tool("get_user_info")
        print(result)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())
```

When you run the client for the first time:

1. Your browser will open to Hugging Face's authorization page
2. Sign in with your Hugging Face account and grant the requested permissions
3. After authorization, you'll be redirected back
4. The client receives the token and can make authenticated requests

<Info>
The client caches tokens locally, so you won't need to re-authenticate for
subsequent runs unless the token expires or you explicitly clear the cache.
</Info>

## Hugging Face Spaces

When deploying to [Hugging Face Spaces](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-oauth),
Spaces can create and manage the OAuth app for you. Add OAuth metadata to your
Space README:

```yaml
---
title: FastMCP Hugging Face OAuth
sdk: docker
hf_oauth: true
hf_oauth_expiration_minutes: 480
hf_oauth_scopes:
  - email
  - inference-api
---
```

Spaces provide `OAUTH_CLIENT_ID`, `OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET`, `OAUTH_SCOPES`,
`OPENID_PROVIDER_URL`, and `SPACE_HOST` environment variables:

```python
import os

from fastmcp import FastMCP
from fastmcp.server.auth.providers.huggingface import HuggingFaceProvider
from fastmcp.utilities.auth import parse_scopes

base_url = f"https://{os.environ['SPACE_HOST']}"

auth_provider = HuggingFaceProvider(
    client_id=os.environ["OAUTH_CLIENT_ID"],
    client_secret=os.environ["OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET"],
    base_url=base_url,
    jwt_signing_key=os.environ["JWT_SIGNING_KEY"],
    required_scopes=parse_scopes(os.environ.get("OAUTH_SCOPES")) or ["openid", "profile"],
)

mcp = FastMCP(name="Hugging Face Space App", auth=auth_provider)
```

Set `JWT_SIGNING_KEY` as a Space secret.

## Hugging Face scopes

The default scopes are `openid` and `profile`. Add more scopes when your tools
need Hub capabilities:

| Scope | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `email` | Access the user's email address |
| `read-billing` | Know whether the user has a payment method set up |
| `read-repos` | Read the user's personal repositories |
| `gated-repos` | Read public gated repositories the user can access |
| `contribute-repos` | Create repositories and access app-created repositories |
| `write-repos` | Read and write the user's personal repositories |
| `manage-repos` | Full repository access, including creation and deletion |
| `read-collections` | Read the user's personal collections |
| `write-collections` | Read and write the user's personal collections, including collection creation and deletion |
| `inference-api` | Use Hugging Face Inference Providers as the user |
| `jobs` | Run Hugging Face Jobs |
| `webhooks` | Manage webhooks |
| `write-discussions` | Open discussions and pull requests, and interact with discussions |

```python
auth_provider = HuggingFaceProvider(
    client_id="your-huggingface-client-id",
    client_secret="your-huggingface-client-secret",
    base_url="https://your-domain.com",
    required_scopes=["openid", "profile", "inference-api", "jobs"],
)
```

For organization resources, use Hugging Face's normal OAuth organization grant
flow. If you need a specific organization, pass Hugging Face's `orgIds`
authorization parameter. The value is the organization ID from the
`organizations.sub` field in the Hugging Face userinfo response:

```python
auth_provider = HuggingFaceProvider(
    client_id="your-huggingface-client-id",
    client_secret="your-huggingface-client-secret",
    base_url="https://your-domain.com",
    extra_authorize_params={"orgIds": "your-org-id"},
)
```

## Production Configuration

For production deployments with persistent token management across server
restarts, configure `jwt_signing_key` and `client_storage`:

```python server.py
import os
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
from fastmcp import FastMCP
from fastmcp.server.auth.providers.huggingface import HuggingFaceProvider
from key_value.aio.stores.redis import RedisStore
from key_value.aio.wrappers.encryption import FernetEncryptionWrapper

# Production setup with encrypted persistent token storage
auth_provider = HuggingFaceProvider(
    client_id="your-huggingface-client-id",
    client_secret=os.environ["HUGGINGFACE_CLIENT_SECRET"],
    base_url="https://your-production-domain.com",
    required_scopes=["openid", "profile", "email"],

    # Production token management
    jwt_signing_key=os.environ["JWT_SIGNING_KEY"],
    client_storage=FernetEncryptionWrapper(
        key_value=RedisStore(
            host=os.environ["REDIS_HOST"],
            port=int(os.environ["REDIS_PORT"])
        ),
        fernet=Fernet(os.environ["STORAGE_ENCRYPTION_KEY"])
    )
)

mcp = FastMCP(name="Production Hugging Face App", auth=auth_provider)
```

<Note>
Parameters (`jwt_signing_key` and `client_storage`) work together to ensure
tokens and client registrations survive server restarts. **Wrap your storage in
`FernetEncryptionWrapper` to encrypt sensitive OAuth tokens at rest** - without
it, tokens are stored in plaintext. Store secrets in environment variables and
use a persistent storage backend like Redis for distributed deployments.

For complete details on these parameters, see the [OAuth Proxy documentation](/servers/auth/oauth-proxy#configuration-parameters).
</Note>