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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.

Chilkat Android™ Downloads

Android™
// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

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

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    // Adds the "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" header.
    // This is NOT a real key.  Change the "sk-vi...." to your own key.
    http.put_AuthToken("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");

    String file_id = "file-1H4vJq0H775gQVrjWY5jpp15";

    // Download to local file.
    String url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/files/{$file_id}/content";
    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 == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        Log.i(TAG, "Failed");
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file.");

    // Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
    CkStringBuilder sbData = new CkStringBuilder();
    success = http.DownloadSb(url,sbData,"utf-8");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        Log.i(TAG, "Failed");
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder");

    Log.i(TAG, "file content:");
    Log.i(TAG, sbData.getAsString());

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}