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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. B4X

Dim success As Boolean = False

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

Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")

'  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-1H4vJq0H775gQVrjWY5jpp15"

'  Download to local file.
Dim url As String = "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 Then
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Log("Failed")
    Return
End If

Log("Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file.")

'  Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
Dim sbData As ChilkatStringBuilder
sbData.Initialize
success = http.DownloadSb(url, sbData, "utf-8")
If success = False Then
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Log("Failed")
    Return
End If


Log("Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder")

Log("file content:")
Log(sbData.GetAsString)