diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index 022bfe287..8ac557d31 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -815,6 +815,15 @@ bool gpt_params_find_arg(int argc, char ** argv, const std::string & arg, gpt_pa
         params.hf_file = argv[i];
         return true;
     }
+    if (arg == "-hft" || arg == "--hf-token") {
+        params.hf_token = NULL;
+        if (++i >= argc) {
+            invalid_param = true;
+            return true;
+        }
+        params.hf_token = argv[i];
+        return true;
+    }
     if (arg == "--lora") {
         if (++i >= argc) {
             invalid_param = true;
@@ -2280,6 +2289,11 @@ struct llama_model * llama_load_model_from_url(
         return NULL;
     }
 
+    if(params.hf_token!=NULL){
+        struct curl_slist * headers = curl_slist_append(NULL, "Authorization: Bearer " + params.hf_token);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
+    }
+  
     if (!llama_download_file(model_url, path_model)) {
         return NULL;
     }
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index 264504830..d4ae6f2fe 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct gpt_params {
     std::string model_url            = "";  // model url to download
     std::string hf_repo              = "";  // HF repo
     std::string hf_file              = "";  // HF file
+    std::string hf_token             = "";  // HF token
     std::string prompt               = "";
     std::string prompt_file          = "";  // store the external prompt file name
     std::string path_prompt_cache    = "";  // path to file for saving/loading prompt eval state