diff --git a/src/transformers/__init__.py b/src/transformers/__init__.py
index 5e1e95c6291b78..0a97952b18b85e 100755
--- a/src/transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/__init__.py
@@ -441,7 +441,6 @@
         "TensorType",
         "add_end_docstrings",
         "add_start_docstrings",
-        "cached_path",
         "is_apex_available",
         "is_datasets_available",
         "is_faiss_available",
@@ -3214,7 +3213,6 @@
         TensorType,
         add_end_docstrings,
         add_start_docstrings,
-        cached_path,
         is_apex_available,
         is_datasets_available,
         is_faiss_available,
diff --git a/src/transformers/convert_pytorch_checkpoint_to_tf2.py b/src/transformers/convert_pytorch_checkpoint_to_tf2.py
index db7484f4b22701..6a05e40f0f804d 100755
--- a/src/transformers/convert_pytorch_checkpoint_to_tf2.py
+++ b/src/transformers/convert_pytorch_checkpoint_to_tf2.py
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
     T5_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP,
     TRANSFO_XL_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP,
     WAV_2_VEC_2_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP,
-    WEIGHTS_NAME,
     XLM_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP,
     XLM_ROBERTA_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP,
     XLNET_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP,
@@ -91,11 +90,10 @@
     XLMConfig,
     XLMRobertaConfig,
     XLNetConfig,
-    cached_path,
     is_torch_available,
     load_pytorch_checkpoint_in_tf2_model,
 )
-from .utils import hf_bucket_url, logging
+from .utils import CONFIG_NAME, WEIGHTS_NAME, cached_file, logging
 
 
 if is_torch_available():
@@ -311,7 +309,7 @@ def convert_pt_checkpoint_to_tf(
 
     # Initialise TF model
     if config_file in aws_config_map:
-        config_file = cached_path(aws_config_map[config_file], force_download=not use_cached_models)
+        config_file = cached_file(config_file, CONFIG_NAME, force_download=not use_cached_models)
     config = config_class.from_json_file(config_file)
     config.output_hidden_states = True
     config.output_attentions = True
@@ -320,8 +318,9 @@ def convert_pt_checkpoint_to_tf(
 
     # Load weights from tf checkpoint
     if pytorch_checkpoint_path in aws_config_map.keys():
-        pytorch_checkpoint_url = hf_bucket_url(pytorch_checkpoint_path, filename=WEIGHTS_NAME)
-        pytorch_checkpoint_path = cached_path(pytorch_checkpoint_url, force_download=not use_cached_models)
+        pytorch_checkpoint_path = cached_file(
+            pytorch_checkpoint_path, WEIGHTS_NAME, force_download=not use_cached_models
+        )
     # Load PyTorch checkpoint in tf2 model:
     tf_model = load_pytorch_checkpoint_in_tf2_model(tf_model, pytorch_checkpoint_path)
 
@@ -395,14 +394,14 @@ def convert_all_pt_checkpoints_to_tf(
             print("-" * 100)
 
             if config_shortcut_name in aws_config_map:
-                config_file = cached_path(aws_config_map[config_shortcut_name], force_download=not use_cached_models)
+                config_file = cached_file(config_shortcut_name, CONFIG_NAME, force_download=not use_cached_models)
             else:
-                config_file = cached_path(config_shortcut_name, force_download=not use_cached_models)
+                config_file = config_shortcut_name
 
             if model_shortcut_name in aws_model_maps:
-                model_file = cached_path(aws_model_maps[model_shortcut_name], force_download=not use_cached_models)
+                model_file = cached_file(model_shortcut_name, WEIGHTS_NAME, force_download=not use_cached_models)
             else:
-                model_file = cached_path(model_shortcut_name, force_download=not use_cached_models)
+                model_file = model_shortcut_name
 
             if os.path.isfile(model_shortcut_name):
                 model_shortcut_name = "converted_model"
diff --git a/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py b/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py
index da1434067cbdf8..0c2067cf2e53dd 100644
--- a/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py
@@ -24,14 +24,7 @@
 
 from huggingface_hub import HfFolder, model_info
 
-from .utils import (
-    HF_MODULES_CACHE,
-    TRANSFORMERS_DYNAMIC_MODULE_NAME,
-    cached_path,
-    hf_bucket_url,
-    is_offline_mode,
-    logging,
-)
+from .utils import HF_MODULES_CACHE, TRANSFORMERS_DYNAMIC_MODULE_NAME, cached_file, is_offline_mode, logging
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
@@ -219,18 +212,15 @@ def get_cached_module_file(
     # Download and cache module_file from the repo `pretrained_model_name_or_path` of grab it if it's a local file.
     pretrained_model_name_or_path = str(pretrained_model_name_or_path)
     if os.path.isdir(pretrained_model_name_or_path):
-        module_file_or_url = os.path.join(pretrained_model_name_or_path, module_file)
         submodule = "local"
     else:
-        module_file_or_url = hf_bucket_url(
-            pretrained_model_name_or_path, filename=module_file, revision=revision, mirror=None
-        )
         submodule = pretrained_model_name_or_path.replace("/", os.path.sep)
 
     try:
         # Load from URL or cache if already cached
-        resolved_module_file = cached_path(
-            module_file_or_url,
+        resolved_module_file = cached_file(
+            pretrained_model_name_or_path,
+            module_file,
             cache_dir=cache_dir,
             force_download=force_download,
             proxies=proxies,
diff --git a/src/transformers/file_utils.py b/src/transformers/file_utils.py
index 94f9a3326d20e4..aa3681e057bb9d 100644
--- a/src/transformers/file_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/file_utils.py
@@ -69,20 +69,14 @@
     add_end_docstrings,
     add_start_docstrings,
     add_start_docstrings_to_model_forward,
-    cached_path,
     cached_property,
     copy_func,
     default_cache_path,
     define_sagemaker_information,
-    filename_to_url,
     get_cached_models,
     get_file_from_repo,
-    get_from_cache,
     get_full_repo_name,
-    get_list_of_files,
     has_file,
-    hf_bucket_url,
-    http_get,
     http_user_agent,
     is_apex_available,
     is_coloredlogs_available,
@@ -94,7 +88,6 @@
     is_in_notebook,
     is_ipex_available,
     is_librosa_available,
-    is_local_clone,
     is_offline_mode,
     is_onnx_available,
     is_pandas_available,
@@ -105,7 +98,6 @@
     is_pyctcdecode_available,
     is_pytesseract_available,
     is_pytorch_quantization_available,
-    is_remote_url,
     is_rjieba_available,
     is_sagemaker_dp_enabled,
     is_sagemaker_mp_enabled,
@@ -141,5 +133,4 @@
     torch_only_method,
     torch_required,
     torch_version,
-    url_to_filename,
 )
diff --git a/src/transformers/modelcard.py b/src/transformers/modelcard.py
index c5d07e11473778..dc842c2abbf72c 100644
--- a/src/transformers/modelcard.py
+++ b/src/transformers/modelcard.py
@@ -43,15 +43,10 @@
 )
 from .training_args import ParallelMode
 from .utils import (
-    CONFIG_NAME,
     MODEL_CARD_NAME,
-    TF2_WEIGHTS_NAME,
-    WEIGHTS_NAME,
-    cached_path,
-    hf_bucket_url,
+    cached_file,
     is_datasets_available,
     is_offline_mode,
-    is_remote_url,
     is_tf_available,
     is_tokenizers_available,
     is_torch_available,
@@ -153,11 +148,6 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs):
                 A dictionary of proxy servers to use by protocol or endpoint, e.g.: {'http': 'foo.bar:3128',
                 'http://hostname': 'foo.bar:4012'}. The proxies are used on each request.
 
-            find_from_standard_name: (*optional*) boolean, default True:
-                If the pretrained_model_name_or_path ends with our standard model or config filenames, replace them
-                with our standard modelcard filename. Can be used to directly feed a model/config url and access the
-                colocated modelcard.
-
             return_unused_kwargs: (*optional*) bool:
 
                 - If False, then this function returns just the final model card object.
@@ -168,21 +158,15 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs):
         Examples:
 
         ```python
-        modelcard = ModelCard.from_pretrained(
-            "bert-base-uncased"
-        )  # Download model card from huggingface.co and cache.
-        modelcard = ModelCard.from_pretrained(
-            "./test/saved_model/"
-        )  # E.g. model card was saved using *save_pretrained('./test/saved_model/')*
+        # Download model card from huggingface.co and cache.
+        modelcard = ModelCard.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
+        # Model card was saved using *save_pretrained('./test/saved_model/')*
+        modelcard = ModelCard.from_pretrained("./test/saved_model/")
         modelcard = ModelCard.from_pretrained("./test/saved_model/modelcard.json")
         modelcard = ModelCard.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased", output_attentions=True, foo=False)
         ```"""
-        # This imports every model so let's do it dynamically here.
-        from transformers.models.auto.configuration_auto import ALL_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP
-
         cache_dir = kwargs.pop("cache_dir", None)
         proxies = kwargs.pop("proxies", None)
-        find_from_standard_name = kwargs.pop("find_from_standard_name", True)
         return_unused_kwargs = kwargs.pop("return_unused_kwargs", False)
         from_pipeline = kwargs.pop("_from_pipeline", None)
 
@@ -190,37 +174,30 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs):
         if from_pipeline is not None:
             user_agent["using_pipeline"] = from_pipeline
 
-        if pretrained_model_name_or_path in ALL_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP:
-            # For simplicity we use the same pretrained url than the configuration files
-            # but with a different suffix (modelcard.json). This suffix is replaced below.
-            model_card_file = ALL_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP[pretrained_model_name_or_path]
-        elif os.path.isdir(pretrained_model_name_or_path):
-            model_card_file = os.path.join(pretrained_model_name_or_path, MODEL_CARD_NAME)
-        elif os.path.isfile(pretrained_model_name_or_path) or is_remote_url(pretrained_model_name_or_path):
-            model_card_file = pretrained_model_name_or_path
+        is_local = os.path.isdir(pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        if os.path.isfile(pretrained_model_name_or_path):
+            resolved_model_card_file = pretrained_model_name_or_path
+            is_local = True
         else:
-            model_card_file = hf_bucket_url(pretrained_model_name_or_path, filename=MODEL_CARD_NAME, mirror=None)
-
-        if find_from_standard_name or pretrained_model_name_or_path in ALL_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP:
-            model_card_file = model_card_file.replace(CONFIG_NAME, MODEL_CARD_NAME)
-            model_card_file = model_card_file.replace(WEIGHTS_NAME, MODEL_CARD_NAME)
-            model_card_file = model_card_file.replace(TF2_WEIGHTS_NAME, MODEL_CARD_NAME)
-
-        try:
-            # Load from URL or cache if already cached
-            resolved_model_card_file = cached_path(
-                model_card_file, cache_dir=cache_dir, proxies=proxies, user_agent=user_agent
-            )
-            if resolved_model_card_file == model_card_file:
-                logger.info(f"loading model card file {model_card_file}")
-            else:
-                logger.info(f"loading model card file {model_card_file} from cache at {resolved_model_card_file}")
-            # Load model card
-            modelcard = cls.from_json_file(resolved_model_card_file)
+            try:
+                # Load from URL or cache if already cached
+                resolved_model_card_file = cached_file(
+                    pretrained_model_name_or_path,
+                    filename=MODEL_CARD_NAME,
+                    cache_dir=cache_dir,
+                    proxies=proxies,
+                    user_agent=user_agent,
+                )
+                if is_local:
+                    logger.info(f"loading model card file {resolved_model_card_file}")
+                else:
+                    logger.info(f"loading model card file {MODEL_CARD_NAME} from cache at {resolved_model_card_file}")
+                # Load model card
+                modelcard = cls.from_json_file(resolved_model_card_file)
 
-        except (EnvironmentError, json.JSONDecodeError):
-            # We fall back on creating an empty model card
-            modelcard = cls()
+            except (EnvironmentError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+                # We fall back on creating an empty model card
+                modelcard = cls()
 
         # Update model card with kwargs if needed
         to_remove = []
diff --git a/src/transformers/modeling_tf_utils.py b/src/transformers/modeling_tf_utils.py
index 354bd9592f30cd..703440d80ad71b 100644
--- a/src/transformers/modeling_tf_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/modeling_tf_utils.py
@@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, *model_args, **kwargs):
         use_auth_token = kwargs.pop("use_auth_token", None)
         revision = kwargs.pop("revision", None)
         trust_remote_code = kwargs.pop("trust_remote_code", None)
-        mirror = kwargs.pop("mirror", None)
+        _ = kwargs.pop("mirror", None)
         load_weight_prefix = kwargs.pop("load_weight_prefix", None)
         from_pipeline = kwargs.pop("_from_pipeline", None)
         from_auto_class = kwargs.pop("_from_auto", False)
@@ -2270,7 +2270,6 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, *model_args, **kwargs):
                         # message.
                         has_file_kwargs = {
                             "revision": revision,
-                            "mirror": mirror,
                             "proxies": proxies,
                             "use_auth_token": use_auth_token,
                         }
@@ -2321,7 +2320,6 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, *model_args, **kwargs):
                 use_auth_token=use_auth_token,
                 user_agent=user_agent,
                 revision=revision,
-                mirror=mirror,
             )
 
         config.name_or_path = pretrained_model_name_or_path
diff --git a/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py b/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py
index 771f1d2d5d84c0..2a86128c221bec 100644
--- a/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py
@@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path: Optional[Union[str, os.P
         use_auth_token = kwargs.pop("use_auth_token", None)
         revision = kwargs.pop("revision", None)
         trust_remote_code = kwargs.pop("trust_remote_code", None)
-        mirror = kwargs.pop("mirror", None)
+        _ = kwargs.pop("mirror", None)
         from_pipeline = kwargs.pop("_from_pipeline", None)
         from_auto_class = kwargs.pop("_from_auto", False)
         _fast_init = kwargs.pop("_fast_init", True)
@@ -1955,7 +1955,6 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path: Optional[Union[str, os.P
                         # message.
                         has_file_kwargs = {
                             "revision": revision,
-                            "mirror": mirror,
                             "proxies": proxies,
                             "use_auth_token": use_auth_token,
                         }
@@ -2012,7 +2011,6 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path: Optional[Union[str, os.P
                 use_auth_token=use_auth_token,
                 user_agent=user_agent,
                 revision=revision,
-                mirror=mirror,
                 subfolder=subfolder,
             )
 
diff --git a/src/transformers/models/rag/retrieval_rag.py b/src/transformers/models/rag/retrieval_rag.py
index 7a3c5635f24f9b..797c1a7332acf7 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/rag/retrieval_rag.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/rag/retrieval_rag.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 from ...tokenization_utils import PreTrainedTokenizer
 from ...tokenization_utils_base import BatchEncoding
-from ...utils import cached_path, is_datasets_available, is_faiss_available, is_remote_url, logging, requires_backends
+from ...utils import cached_file, is_datasets_available, is_faiss_available, logging, requires_backends
 from .configuration_rag import RagConfig
 from .tokenization_rag import RagTokenizer
 
@@ -111,22 +111,21 @@ def __init__(self, vector_size, index_path):
         self._index_initialized = False
 
     def _resolve_path(self, index_path, filename):
-        assert os.path.isdir(index_path) or is_remote_url(index_path), "Please specify a valid `index_path`."
-        archive_file = os.path.join(index_path, filename)
+        is_local = os.path.isdir(index_path)
         try:
             # Load from URL or cache if already cached
-            resolved_archive_file = cached_path(archive_file)
+            resolved_archive_file = cached_file(index_path, filename)
         except EnvironmentError:
             msg = (
-                f"Can't load '{archive_file}'. Make sure that:\n\n"
+                f"Can't load '{filename}'. Make sure that:\n\n"
                 f"- '{index_path}' is a correct remote path to a directory containing a file named {filename}\n\n"
                 f"- or '{index_path}' is the correct path to a directory containing a file named {filename}.\n\n"
             )
             raise EnvironmentError(msg)
-        if resolved_archive_file == archive_file:
-            logger.info(f"loading file {archive_file}")
+        if is_local:
+            logger.info(f"loading file {resolved_archive_file}")
         else:
-            logger.info(f"loading file {archive_file} from cache at {resolved_archive_file}")
+            logger.info(f"loading file {filename} from cache at {resolved_archive_file}")
         return resolved_archive_file
 
     def _load_passages(self):
diff --git a/src/transformers/models/transfo_xl/tokenization_transfo_xl.py b/src/transformers/models/transfo_xl/tokenization_transfo_xl.py
index 92bcfe83199e8d..5b284a219a4753 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/transfo_xl/tokenization_transfo_xl.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/transfo_xl/tokenization_transfo_xl.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 from ...tokenization_utils import PreTrainedTokenizer
 from ...utils import (
-    cached_path,
+    cached_file,
     is_sacremoses_available,
     is_torch_available,
     logging,
@@ -681,24 +681,21 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, cache_dir=None, *inputs,
         Instantiate a pre-processed corpus.
         """
         vocab = TransfoXLTokenizer.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path, *inputs, **kwargs)
-        if pretrained_model_name_or_path in PRETRAINED_CORPUS_ARCHIVE_MAP:
-            corpus_file = PRETRAINED_CORPUS_ARCHIVE_MAP[pretrained_model_name_or_path]
-        else:
-            corpus_file = os.path.join(pretrained_model_name_or_path, CORPUS_NAME)
+        is_local = os.path.isdir(pretrained_model_name_or_path)
         # redirect to the cache, if necessary
         try:
-            resolved_corpus_file = cached_path(corpus_file, cache_dir=cache_dir)
+            resolved_corpus_file = cached_file(pretrained_model_name_or_path, CORPUS_NAME, cache_dir=cache_dir)
         except EnvironmentError:
             logger.error(
                 f"Corpus '{pretrained_model_name_or_path}' was not found in corpus list"
                 f" ({', '.join(PRETRAINED_CORPUS_ARCHIVE_MAP.keys())}. We assumed '{pretrained_model_name_or_path}'"
-                f" was a path or url but couldn't find files {corpus_file} at this path or url."
+                f" was a path or url but couldn't find files {CORPUS_NAME} at this path or url."
             )
             return None
-        if resolved_corpus_file == corpus_file:
-            logger.info(f"loading corpus file {corpus_file}")
+        if is_local:
+            logger.info(f"loading corpus file {resolved_corpus_file}")
         else:
-            logger.info(f"loading corpus file {corpus_file} from cache at {resolved_corpus_file}")
+            logger.info(f"loading corpus file {CORPUS_NAME} from cache at {resolved_corpus_file}")
 
         # Instantiate tokenizer.
         corpus = cls(*inputs, **kwargs)
diff --git a/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py b/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py
index 104726bbd8cc7a..dfa75768d8f811 100755
--- a/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 
 from numpy import isin
 
+from huggingface_hub.file_download import http_get
+
 from ..configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig
 from ..dynamic_module_utils import get_class_from_dynamic_module
 from ..feature_extraction_utils import PreTrainedFeatureExtractor
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@
 from ..models.auto.tokenization_auto import TOKENIZER_MAPPING, AutoTokenizer
 from ..tokenization_utils import PreTrainedTokenizer
 from ..tokenization_utils_fast import PreTrainedTokenizerFast
-from ..utils import HUGGINGFACE_CO_RESOLVE_ENDPOINT, http_get, is_tf_available, is_torch_available, logging
+from ..utils import HUGGINGFACE_CO_RESOLVE_ENDPOINT, is_tf_available, is_torch_available, logging
 from .audio_classification import AudioClassificationPipeline
 from .automatic_speech_recognition import AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline
 from .base import (
diff --git a/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py b/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py
index 023dffc27a703b..27276aa4946d5e 100644
--- a/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py
@@ -61,25 +61,16 @@
     RepositoryNotFoundError,
     RevisionNotFoundError,
     cached_file,
-    cached_path,
     default_cache_path,
     define_sagemaker_information,
-    filename_to_url,
     get_cached_models,
     get_file_from_repo,
-    get_from_cache,
     get_full_repo_name,
-    get_list_of_files,
     has_file,
-    hf_bucket_url,
-    http_get,
     http_user_agent,
-    is_local_clone,
     is_offline_mode,
-    is_remote_url,
     move_cache,
     send_example_telemetry,
-    url_to_filename,
 )
 from .import_utils import (
     ENV_VARS_TRUE_AND_AUTO_VALUES,
diff --git a/src/transformers/utils/hub.py b/src/transformers/utils/hub.py
index 1aa086da6721ec..5f9421912c49d7 100644
--- a/src/transformers/utils/hub.py
+++ b/src/transformers/utils/hub.py
@@ -14,44 +14,32 @@
 """
 Hub utilities: utilities related to download and cache models
 """
-import copy
-import fnmatch
-import io
 import json
 import os
 import re
 import shutil
-import subprocess
 import sys
-import tarfile
-import tempfile
 import traceback
 import warnings
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-from functools import partial
-from hashlib import sha256
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import BinaryIO, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
-from urllib.parse import urlparse
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 from uuid import uuid4
-from zipfile import ZipFile, is_zipfile
 
 import huggingface_hub
 import requests
-from filelock import FileLock
 from huggingface_hub import (
     CommitOperationAdd,
     HfFolder,
     create_commit,
     create_repo,
     hf_hub_download,
-    list_repo_files,
+    hf_hub_url,
     whoami,
 )
 from huggingface_hub.constants import HUGGINGFACE_HEADER_X_LINKED_ETAG, HUGGINGFACE_HEADER_X_REPO_COMMIT
 from huggingface_hub.utils import EntryNotFoundError, RepositoryNotFoundError, RevisionNotFoundError
 from requests.exceptions import HTTPError
-from requests.models import Response
 from transformers.utils.logging import tqdm
 
 from . import __version__, logging
@@ -128,93 +116,6 @@ def is_offline_mode():
 HUGGINGFACE_CO_EXAMPLES_TELEMETRY = HUGGINGFACE_CO_RESOLVE_ENDPOINT + "/api/telemetry/examples"
 
 
-def is_remote_url(url_or_filename):
-    parsed = urlparse(url_or_filename)
-    return parsed.scheme in ("http", "https")
-
-
-def hf_bucket_url(
-    model_id: str, filename: str, subfolder: Optional[str] = None, revision: Optional[str] = None, mirror=None
-) -> str:
-    """
-    Resolve a model identifier, a file name, and an optional revision id, to a huggingface.co-hosted url, redirecting
-    to Cloudfront (a Content Delivery Network, or CDN) for large files.
-
-    Cloudfront is replicated over the globe so downloads are way faster for the end user (and it also lowers our
-    bandwidth costs).
-
-    Cloudfront aggressively caches files by default (default TTL is 24 hours), however this is not an issue here
-    because we migrated to a git-based versioning system on huggingface.co, so we now store the files on S3/Cloudfront
-    in a content-addressable way (i.e., the file name is its hash). Using content-addressable filenames means cache
-    can't ever be stale.
-
-    In terms of client-side caching from this library, we base our caching on the objects' ETag. An object' ETag is:
-    its sha1 if stored in git, or its sha256 if stored in git-lfs. Files cached locally from transformers before v3.5.0
-    are not shared with those new files, because the cached file's name contains a hash of the url (which changed).
-    """
-    if subfolder is not None:
-        filename = f"{subfolder}/{filename}"
-
-    if mirror:
-        if mirror in ["tuna", "bfsu"]:
-            raise ValueError("The Tuna and BFSU mirrors are no longer available. Try removing the mirror argument.")
-        legacy_format = "/" not in model_id
-        if legacy_format:
-            return f"{mirror}/{model_id}-{filename}"
-        else:
-            return f"{mirror}/{model_id}/{filename}"
-
-    if revision is None:
-        revision = "main"
-    return HUGGINGFACE_CO_PREFIX.format(model_id=model_id, revision=revision, filename=filename)
-
-
-def url_to_filename(url: str, etag: Optional[str] = None) -> str:
-    """
-    Convert `url` into a hashed filename in a repeatable way. If `etag` is specified, append its hash to the url's,
-    delimited by a period. If the url ends with .h5 (Keras HDF5 weights) adds '.h5' to the name so that TF 2.0 can
-    identify it as a HDF5 file (see
-    https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/00fad90125b18b80fe054de1055770cfb8fe4ba3/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/network.py#L1380)
-    """
-    url_bytes = url.encode("utf-8")
-    filename = sha256(url_bytes).hexdigest()
-
-    if etag:
-        etag_bytes = etag.encode("utf-8")
-        filename += "." + sha256(etag_bytes).hexdigest()
-
-    if url.endswith(".h5"):
-        filename += ".h5"
-
-    return filename
-
-
-def filename_to_url(filename, cache_dir=None):
-    """
-    Return the url and etag (which may be `None`) stored for *filename*. Raise `EnvironmentError` if *filename* or its
-    stored metadata do not exist.
-    """
-    if cache_dir is None:
-        cache_dir = TRANSFORMERS_CACHE
-    if isinstance(cache_dir, Path):
-        cache_dir = str(cache_dir)
-
-    cache_path = os.path.join(cache_dir, filename)
-    if not os.path.exists(cache_path):
-        raise EnvironmentError(f"file {cache_path} not found")
-
-    meta_path = cache_path + ".json"
-    if not os.path.exists(meta_path):
-        raise EnvironmentError(f"file {meta_path} not found")
-
-    with open(meta_path, encoding="utf-8") as meta_file:
-        metadata = json.load(meta_file)
-    url = metadata["url"]
-    etag = metadata["etag"]
-
-    return url, etag
-
-
 def get_cached_models(cache_dir: Union[str, Path] = None) -> List[Tuple]:
     """
     Returns a list of tuples representing model binaries that are cached locally. Each tuple has shape `(model_url,
@@ -248,108 +149,6 @@ def get_cached_models(cache_dir: Union[str, Path] = None) -> List[Tuple]:
     return cached_models
 
 
-def cached_path(
-    url_or_filename,
-    cache_dir=None,
-    force_download=False,
-    proxies=None,
-    resume_download=False,
-    user_agent: Union[Dict, str, None] = None,
-    extract_compressed_file=False,
-    force_extract=False,
-    use_auth_token: Union[bool, str, None] = None,
-    local_files_only=False,
-) -> Optional[str]:
-    """
-    Given something that might be a URL (or might be a local path), determine which. If it's a URL, download the file
-    and cache it, and return the path to the cached file. If it's already a local path, make sure the file exists and
-    then return the path
-
-    Args:
-        cache_dir: specify a cache directory to save the file to (overwrite the default cache dir).
-        force_download: if True, re-download the file even if it's already cached in the cache dir.
-        resume_download: if True, resume the download if incompletely received file is found.
-        user_agent: Optional string or dict that will be appended to the user-agent on remote requests.
-        use_auth_token: Optional string or boolean to use as Bearer token for remote files. If True,
-            will get token from ~/.huggingface.
-        extract_compressed_file: if True and the path point to a zip or tar file, extract the compressed
-            file in a folder along the archive.
-        force_extract: if True when extract_compressed_file is True and the archive was already extracted,
-            re-extract the archive and override the folder where it was extracted.
-
-    Return:
-        Local path (string) of file or if networking is off, last version of file cached on disk.
-
-    Raises:
-        In case of non-recoverable file (non-existent or inaccessible url + no cache on disk).
-    """
-    if cache_dir is None:
-        cache_dir = TRANSFORMERS_CACHE
-    if isinstance(url_or_filename, Path):
-        url_or_filename = str(url_or_filename)
-    if isinstance(cache_dir, Path):
-        cache_dir = str(cache_dir)
-
-    if is_offline_mode() and not local_files_only:
-        logger.info("Offline mode: forcing local_files_only=True")
-        local_files_only = True
-
-    if is_remote_url(url_or_filename):
-        # URL, so get it from the cache (downloading if necessary)
-        output_path = get_from_cache(
-            url_or_filename,
-            cache_dir=cache_dir,
-            force_download=force_download,
-            proxies=proxies,
-            resume_download=resume_download,
-            user_agent=user_agent,
-            use_auth_token=use_auth_token,
-            local_files_only=local_files_only,
-        )
-    elif os.path.exists(url_or_filename):
-        # File, and it exists.
-        output_path = url_or_filename
-    elif urlparse(url_or_filename).scheme == "":
-        # File, but it doesn't exist.
-        raise EnvironmentError(f"file {url_or_filename} not found")
-    else:
-        # Something unknown
-        raise ValueError(f"unable to parse {url_or_filename} as a URL or as a local path")
-
-    if extract_compressed_file:
-        if not is_zipfile(output_path) and not tarfile.is_tarfile(output_path):
-            return output_path
-
-        # Path where we extract compressed archives
-        # We avoid '.' in dir name and add "-extracted" at the end: "./model.zip" => "./model-zip-extracted/"
-        output_dir, output_file = os.path.split(output_path)
-        output_extract_dir_name = output_file.replace(".", "-") + "-extracted"
-        output_path_extracted = os.path.join(output_dir, output_extract_dir_name)
-
-        if os.path.isdir(output_path_extracted) and os.listdir(output_path_extracted) and not force_extract:
-            return output_path_extracted
-
-        # Prevent parallel extractions
-        lock_path = output_path + ".lock"
-        with FileLock(lock_path):
-            shutil.rmtree(output_path_extracted, ignore_errors=True)
-            os.makedirs(output_path_extracted)
-            if is_zipfile(output_path):
-                with ZipFile(output_path, "r") as zip_file:
-                    zip_file.extractall(output_path_extracted)
-                    zip_file.close()
-            elif tarfile.is_tarfile(output_path):
-                tar_file = tarfile.open(output_path)
-                tar_file.extractall(output_path_extracted)
-                tar_file.close()
-            else:
-                raise EnvironmentError(f"Archive format of {output_path} could not be identified")
-
-        return output_path_extracted
-
-    return output_path
-
-
 def define_sagemaker_information():
     try:
         instance_data = requests.get(os.environ["ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI"]).json()
@@ -399,234 +198,6 @@ def http_user_agent(user_agent: Union[Dict, str, None] = None) -> str:
     return ua
 
 
-def _raise_for_status(response: Response):
-    """
-    Internal version of `request.raise_for_status()` that will refine a potential HTTPError.
-    """
-    if "X-Error-Code" in response.headers:
-        error_code = response.headers["X-Error-Code"]
-        if error_code == "RepoNotFound":
-            raise RepositoryNotFoundError(f"404 Client Error: Repository Not Found for url: {response.url}")
-        elif error_code == "EntryNotFound":
-            raise EntryNotFoundError(f"404 Client Error: Entry Not Found for url: {response.url}")
-        elif error_code == "RevisionNotFound":
-            raise RevisionNotFoundError(f"404 Client Error: Revision Not Found for url: {response.url}")
-
-    if response.status_code == 401:
-        # The repo was not found and the user is not Authenticated
-        raise RepositoryNotFoundError(
-            f"401 Client Error: Repository not found for url: {response.url}. "
-            "If the repo is private, make sure you are authenticated."
-        )
-
-    response.raise_for_status()
-
-
-def http_get(
-    url: str,
-    temp_file: BinaryIO,
-    proxies=None,
-    resume_size=0,
-    headers: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
-    file_name: Optional[str] = None,
-):
-    """
-    Download remote file. Do not gobble up errors.
-    """
-    headers = copy.deepcopy(headers)
-    if resume_size > 0:
-        headers["Range"] = f"bytes={resume_size}-"
-    r = requests.get(url, stream=True, proxies=proxies, headers=headers)
-    _raise_for_status(r)
-    content_length = r.headers.get("Content-Length")
-    total = resume_size + int(content_length) if content_length is not None else None
-    # `tqdm` behavior is determined by `utils.logging.is_progress_bar_enabled()`
-    # and can be set using `utils.logging.enable/disable_progress_bar()`
-    progress = tqdm(
-        unit="B",
-        unit_scale=True,
-        unit_divisor=1024,
-        total=total,
-        initial=resume_size,
-        desc=f"Downloading {file_name}" if file_name is not None else "Downloading",
-    )
-    for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
-        if chunk:  # filter out keep-alive new chunks
-            progress.update(len(chunk))
-            temp_file.write(chunk)
-    progress.close()
-
-
-def get_from_cache(
-    url: str,
-    cache_dir=None,
-    force_download=False,
-    proxies=None,
-    etag_timeout=10,
-    resume_download=False,
-    user_agent: Union[Dict, str, None] = None,
-    use_auth_token: Union[bool, str, None] = None,
-    local_files_only=False,
-) -> Optional[str]:
-    """
-    Given a URL, look for the corresponding file in the local cache. If it's not there, download it. Then return the
-    path to the cached file.
-
-    Return:
-        Local path (string) of file or if networking is off, last version of file cached on disk.
-
-    Raises:
-        In case of non-recoverable file (non-existent or inaccessible url + no cache on disk).
-    """
-    if cache_dir is None:
-        cache_dir = TRANSFORMERS_CACHE
-    if isinstance(cache_dir, Path):
-        cache_dir = str(cache_dir)
-
-    os.makedirs(cache_dir, exist_ok=True)
-
-    headers = {"user-agent": http_user_agent(user_agent)}
-    if isinstance(use_auth_token, str):
-        headers["authorization"] = f"Bearer {use_auth_token}"
-    elif use_auth_token:
-        token = HfFolder.get_token()
-        if token is None:
-            raise EnvironmentError("You specified use_auth_token=True, but a huggingface token was not found.")
-        headers["authorization"] = f"Bearer {token}"
-
-    url_to_download = url
-    etag = None
-    if not local_files_only:
-        try:
-            r = requests.head(url, headers=headers, allow_redirects=False, proxies=proxies, timeout=etag_timeout)
-            _raise_for_status(r)
-            etag = r.headers.get("X-Linked-Etag") or r.headers.get("ETag")
-            # We favor a custom header indicating the etag of the linked resource, and
-            # we fallback to the regular etag header.
-            # If we don't have any of those, raise an error.
-            if etag is None:
-                raise OSError(
-                    "Distant resource does not have an ETag, we won't be able to reliably ensure reproducibility."
-                )
-            # In case of a redirect,
-            # save an extra redirect on the request.get call,
-            # and ensure we download the exact atomic version even if it changed
-            # between the HEAD and the GET (unlikely, but hey).
-            if 300 <= r.status_code <= 399:
-                url_to_download = r.headers["Location"]
-        except (
-            requests.exceptions.SSLError,
-            requests.exceptions.ProxyError,
-            RepositoryNotFoundError,
-            EntryNotFoundError,
-            RevisionNotFoundError,
-        ):
-            # Actually raise for those subclasses of ConnectionError
-            # Also raise the custom errors coming from a non existing repo/branch/file as they are caught later on.
-            raise
-        except (HTTPError, requests.exceptions.ConnectionError, requests.exceptions.Timeout):
-            # Otherwise, our Internet connection is down.
-            # etag is None
-            pass
-
-    filename = url_to_filename(url, etag)
-
-    # get cache path to put the file
-    cache_path = os.path.join(cache_dir, filename)
-
-    # etag is None == we don't have a connection or we passed local_files_only.
-    # try to get the last downloaded one
-    if etag is None:
-        if os.path.exists(cache_path):
-            return cache_path
-        else:
-            matching_files = [
-                file
-                for file in fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(cache_dir), filename.split(".")[0] + ".*")
-                if not file.endswith(".json") and not file.endswith(".lock")
-            ]
-            if len(matching_files) > 0:
-                return os.path.join(cache_dir, matching_files[-1])
-            else:
-                # If files cannot be found and local_files_only=True,
-                # the models might've been found if local_files_only=False
-                # Notify the user about that
-                if local_files_only:
-                    fname = url.split("/")[-1]
-                    raise EntryNotFoundError(
-                        f"Cannot find the requested file ({fname}) in the cached path and outgoing traffic has been"
-                        " disabled. To enable model look-ups and downloads online, set 'local_files_only'"
-                        " to False."
-                    )
-                else:
-                    raise ValueError(
-                        "Connection error, and we cannot find the requested files in the cached path."
-                        " Please try again or make sure your Internet connection is on."
-                    )
-
-    # From now on, etag is not None.
-    if os.path.exists(cache_path) and not force_download:
-        return cache_path
-
-    # Prevent parallel downloads of the same file with a lock.
-    lock_path = cache_path + ".lock"
-    with FileLock(lock_path):
-
-        # If the download just completed while the lock was activated.
-        if os.path.exists(cache_path) and not force_download:
-            # Even if returning early like here, the lock will be released.
-            return cache_path
-
-        if resume_download:
-            incomplete_path = cache_path + ".incomplete"
-
-            @contextmanager
-            def _resumable_file_manager() -> "io.BufferedWriter":
-                with open(incomplete_path, "ab") as f:
-                    yield f
-
-            temp_file_manager = _resumable_file_manager
-            if os.path.exists(incomplete_path):
-                resume_size = os.stat(incomplete_path).st_size
-            else:
-                resume_size = 0
-        else:
-            temp_file_manager = partial(tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile, mode="wb", dir=cache_dir, delete=False)
-            resume_size = 0
-
-        # Download to temporary file, then copy to cache dir once finished.
-        # Otherwise you get corrupt cache entries if the download gets interrupted.
-        with temp_file_manager() as temp_file:
-            logger.info(f"{url} not found in cache or force_download set to True, downloading to {temp_file.name}")
-
-            # The url_to_download might be messy, so we extract the file name from the original url.
-            file_name = url.split("/")[-1]
-            http_get(
-                url_to_download,
-                temp_file,
-                proxies=proxies,
-                resume_size=resume_size,
-                headers=headers,
-                file_name=file_name,
-            )
-
-        logger.info(f"storing {url} in cache at {cache_path}")
-        os.replace(temp_file.name, cache_path)
-
-        # NamedTemporaryFile creates a file with hardwired 0600 perms (ignoring umask), so fixing it.
-        umask = os.umask(0o666)
-        os.umask(umask)
-        os.chmod(cache_path, 0o666 & ~umask)
-
-        logger.info(f"creating metadata file for {cache_path}")
-        meta = {"url": url, "etag": etag}
-        meta_path = cache_path + ".json"
-        with open(meta_path, "w") as meta_file:
-            json.dump(meta, meta_file)
-
-    return cache_path
-
-
 def try_to_load_from_cache(cache_dir, repo_id, filename, revision=None):
     """
     Explores the cache to return the latest cached file for a given revision.
@@ -919,7 +490,6 @@ def has_file(
     path_or_repo: Union[str, os.PathLike],
     filename: str,
     revision: Optional[str] = None,
-    mirror: Optional[str] = None,
     proxies: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
     use_auth_token: Optional[Union[bool, str]] = None,
 ):
@@ -936,7 +506,7 @@ def has_file(
     if os.path.isdir(path_or_repo):
         return os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path_or_repo, filename))
 
-    url = hf_bucket_url(path_or_repo, filename=filename, revision=revision, mirror=mirror)
+    url = hf_hub_url(path_or_repo, filename=filename, revision=revision)
 
     headers = {"user-agent": http_user_agent()}
     if isinstance(use_auth_token, str):
@@ -965,89 +535,6 @@ def has_file(
         return False
 
 
-def get_list_of_files(
-    path_or_repo: Union[str, os.PathLike],
-    revision: Optional[str] = None,
-    use_auth_token: Optional[Union[bool, str]] = None,
-    local_files_only: bool = False,
-) -> List[str]:
-    """
-    Gets the list of files inside `path_or_repo`.
-
-    Args:
-        path_or_repo (`str` or `os.PathLike`):
-            Can be either the id of a repo on huggingface.co or a path to a *directory*.
-        revision (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `"main"`):
-            The specific model version to use. It can be a branch name, a tag name, or a commit id, since we use a
-            git-based system for storing models and other artifacts on huggingface.co, so `revision` can be any
-            identifier allowed by git.
-        use_auth_token (`str` or *bool*, *optional*):
-            The token to use as HTTP bearer authorization for remote files. If `True`, will use the token generated
-            when running `huggingface-cli login` (stored in `~/.huggingface`).
-        local_files_only (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`):
-            Whether or not to only rely on local files and not to attempt to download any files.
-
-    <Tip warning={true}>
-
-    This API is not optimized, so calling it a lot may result in connection errors.
-
-    </Tip>
-
-    Returns:
-        `List[str]`: The list of files available in `path_or_repo`.
-    """
-    path_or_repo = str(path_or_repo)
-    # If path_or_repo is a folder, we just return what is inside (subdirectories included).
-    if os.path.isdir(path_or_repo):
-        list_of_files = []
-        for path, dir_names, file_names in os.walk(path_or_repo):
-            list_of_files.extend([os.path.join(path, f) for f in file_names])
-        return list_of_files
-
-    # Can't grab the files if we are on offline mode.
-    if is_offline_mode() or local_files_only:
-        return []
-
-    # Otherwise we grab the token and use the list_repo_files method.
-    if isinstance(use_auth_token, str):
-        token = use_auth_token
-    elif use_auth_token is True:
-        token = HfFolder.get_token()
-    else:
-        token = None
-
-    try:
-        return list_repo_files(path_or_repo, revision=revision, token=token)
-    except HTTPError as e:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"{path_or_repo} is not a local path or a model identifier on the model Hub. Did you make a typo?"
-        ) from e
-
-
-def is_local_clone(repo_path, repo_url):
-    """
-    Checks if the folder in `repo_path` is a local clone of `repo_url`.
-    """
-    # First double-check that `repo_path` is a git repo
-    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(repo_path, ".git")):
-        return False
-    test_git = subprocess.run("git branch".split(), cwd=repo_path)
-    if test_git.returncode != 0:
-        return False
-
-    # Then look at its remotes
-    remotes = subprocess.run(
-        "git remote -v".split(),
-        stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
-        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-        check=True,
-        encoding="utf-8",
-        cwd=repo_path,
-    ).stdout
-
-    return repo_url in remotes.split()
-
-
 class PushToHubMixin:
     """
     A Mixin containing the functionality to push a model or tokenizer to the hub.
@@ -1310,7 +797,6 @@ def get_checkpoint_shard_files(
     use_auth_token=None,
     user_agent=None,
     revision=None,
-    mirror=None,
     subfolder="",
 ):
     """
@@ -1343,18 +829,11 @@ def get_checkpoint_shard_files(
     # At this stage pretrained_model_name_or_path is a model identifier on the Hub
     cached_filenames = []
     for shard_filename in shard_filenames:
-        shard_url = hf_bucket_url(
-            pretrained_model_name_or_path,
-            filename=shard_filename,
-            revision=revision,
-            mirror=mirror,
-            subfolder=subfolder if len(subfolder) > 0 else None,
-        )
-
         try:
             # Load from URL
-            cached_filename = cached_path(
-                shard_url,
+            cached_filename = cached_file(
+                pretrained_model_name_or_path,
+                shard_filename,
                 cache_dir=cache_dir,
                 force_download=force_download,
                 proxies=proxies,
@@ -1362,6 +841,8 @@ def get_checkpoint_shard_files(
                 local_files_only=local_files_only,
                 use_auth_token=use_auth_token,
                 user_agent=user_agent,
+                revision=revision,
+                subfolder=subfolder,
             )
         # We have already dealt with RepositoryNotFoundError and RevisionNotFoundError when getting the index, so
         # we don't have to catch them here.
diff --git a/tests/utils/test_file_utils.py b/tests/utils/test_file_utils.py
index 19adfe21dd4bf6..60676e9f7d9d37 100644
--- a/tests/utils/test_file_utils.py
+++ b/tests/utils/test_file_utils.py
@@ -26,20 +26,13 @@
 from transformers import *  # noqa F406
 from transformers.testing_utils import DUMMY_UNKNOWN_IDENTIFIER
 from transformers.utils import (
-    CONFIG_NAME,
     FLAX_WEIGHTS_NAME,
     TF2_WEIGHTS_NAME,
     WEIGHTS_NAME,
     ContextManagers,
-    EntryNotFoundError,
-    RepositoryNotFoundError,
-    RevisionNotFoundError,
-    filename_to_url,
     find_labels,
     get_file_from_repo,
-    get_from_cache,
     has_file,
-    hf_bucket_url,
     is_flax_available,
     is_tf_available,
     is_torch_available,
@@ -85,60 +78,6 @@ def test_module_spec_available(self):
 
 
 class GetFromCacheTests(unittest.TestCase):
-    def test_bogus_url(self):
-        # This lets us simulate no connection
-        # as the error raised is the same
-        # `ConnectionError`
-        url = "https://bogus"
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "Connection error"):
-            _ = get_from_cache(url)
-
-    def test_file_not_found(self):
-        # Valid revision (None) but missing file.
-        url = hf_bucket_url(MODEL_ID, filename="missing.bin")
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(EntryNotFoundError, "404 Client Error"):
-            _ = get_from_cache(url)
-
-    def test_model_not_found_not_authenticated(self):
-        # Invalid model id.
-        url = hf_bucket_url("bert-base", filename="pytorch_model.bin")
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(RepositoryNotFoundError, "401 Client Error"):
-            _ = get_from_cache(url)
-
-    @unittest.skip("No authentication when testing against prod")
-    def test_model_not_found_authenticated(self):
-        # Invalid model id.
-        url = hf_bucket_url("bert-base", filename="pytorch_model.bin")
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(RepositoryNotFoundError, "404 Client Error"):
-            _ = get_from_cache(url, use_auth_token="hf_sometoken")
-            # ^ TODO - if we decide to unskip this: use a real / functional token
-
-    def test_revision_not_found(self):
-        # Valid file but missing revision
-        url = hf_bucket_url(MODEL_ID, filename=CONFIG_NAME, revision=REVISION_ID_INVALID)
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(RevisionNotFoundError, "404 Client Error"):
-            _ = get_from_cache(url)
-
-    def test_standard_object(self):
-        url = hf_bucket_url(MODEL_ID, filename=CONFIG_NAME, revision=REVISION_ID_DEFAULT)
-        filepath = get_from_cache(url, force_download=True)
-        metadata = filename_to_url(filepath)
-        self.assertEqual(metadata, (url, f'"{PINNED_SHA1}"'))
-
-    def test_standard_object_rev(self):
-        # Same object, but different revision
-        url = hf_bucket_url(MODEL_ID, filename=CONFIG_NAME, revision=REVISION_ID_ONE_SPECIFIC_COMMIT)
-        filepath = get_from_cache(url, force_download=True)
-        metadata = filename_to_url(filepath)
-        self.assertNotEqual(metadata[1], f'"{PINNED_SHA1}"')
-        # Caution: check that the etag is *not* equal to the one from `test_standard_object`
-
-    def test_lfs_object(self):
-        url = hf_bucket_url(MODEL_ID, filename=WEIGHTS_NAME, revision=REVISION_ID_DEFAULT)
-        filepath = get_from_cache(url, force_download=True)
-        metadata = filename_to_url(filepath)
-        self.assertEqual(metadata, (url, f'"{PINNED_SHA256}"'))
-
     def test_has_file(self):
         self.assertTrue(has_file("hf-internal-testing/tiny-bert-pt-only", WEIGHTS_NAME))
         self.assertFalse(has_file("hf-internal-testing/tiny-bert-pt-only", TF2_WEIGHTS_NAME))
diff --git a/utils/check_repo.py b/utils/check_repo.py
index 00cc6a048b9b2d..d2271e87ebf178 100644
--- a/utils/check_repo.py
+++ b/utils/check_repo.py
@@ -614,7 +614,6 @@ def find_all_documented_objects():
     "absl",  # External module
     "add_end_docstrings",  # Internal, should never have been in the main init.
     "add_start_docstrings",  # Internal, should never have been in the main init.
-    "cached_path",  # Internal used for downloading models.
     "convert_tf_weight_name_to_pt_weight_name",  # Internal used to convert model weights
     "logger",  # Internal logger
     "logging",  # External module