Visual Basic 6.0

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. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp

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

Dim file_id As String
file_id = "file-1H4vJq0H775gQVrjWY5jpp15"

' Download to local file.
Dim url As String
url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/files/{$file_id}/content"
success = http.SetUrlVar("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."
success = http.Download(url,"c:/aaworkarea/mydata.jsonl")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Debug.Print "Failed"
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file."

' Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
Dim sbData As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = http.DownloadSb(url,sbData,"utf-8")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Debug.Print "Failed"
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder"

Debug.Print "file content:"
Debug.Print sbData.GetAsString()