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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 PHP ActiveX Downloads

PHP ActiveX
<?php

$success = 0;

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

$http = new COM("Chilkat.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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';

$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 . "\n";
    print 'Failed' . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

// Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
$sbData = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $http->DownloadSb($url,$sbData,'utf-8');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    print 'Failed' . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

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

?>