(Ruby) OpenAI (ChatGTP) 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.

For more information, see https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/files/retrieve-content

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require 'chilkat'

# 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 == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    print "Failed" + "\n";
    exit
end

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

# Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
sbData = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
success = http.DownloadSb(url,sbData,"utf-8")
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    print "Failed" + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder" + "\n";

print "file content:" + "\n";
print sbData.getAsString() + "\n";