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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 Perl Downloads

Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

# 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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");

$file_id = "file-1H4vJq0H775gQVrjWY5jpp15";

# Download to local file.
$url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/files/{$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 == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    print "Failed" . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file." . "\r\n";

# Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
$sbData = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $http->DownloadSb($url,$sbData,"utf-8");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    print "Failed" . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder" . "\r\n";

print "file content:" . "\r\n";
print $sbData->getAsString() . "\r\n";