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OpenAI (ChatGPT) Retrieve File Content

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Demonstrate how to retrieve the content of a file from OpenAI. Shows how to download to a file, or instead download to a string in memory.

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SQL Server
-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    -- This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    -- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Adds the "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" header.
    -- This is NOT a real key.  Change the "sk-vi...." to your own key.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'AuthToken', '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'

    DECLARE @file_id nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @file_id = 'file-1H4vJq0H775gQVrjWY5jpp15'

    -- Download to local file.
    DECLARE @url nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @url = 'https://api.openai.com/v1/files/{$file_id}/content'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'SetUrlVar', @success OUT, 'file_id', @file_id

    -- Note: Free accounts are not able to download files.
    -- If using a free account, you'll receive an error response:  "To help mitigate abuse, downloading of fine-tune training files is disabled for free accounts."
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'Download', @success OUT, @url, 'c:/aaworkarea/mydata.jsonl'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0

        PRINT 'Failed'
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        RETURN
      END

    PRINT 'Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file.'

    -- Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
    DECLARE @sbData int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringBuilder', @sbData OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'DownloadSb', @success OUT, @url, @sbData, 'utf-8'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0

        PRINT 'Failed'
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbData
        RETURN
      END


    PRINT 'Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder'


    PRINT 'file content:'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbData, 'GetAsString', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbData


END
GO