Xojo Plugin

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. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

Dim http As New 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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"

Dim file_id As String
file_id = "file-1H4vJq0H775gQVrjWY5jpp15"

// Download to local file.
Dim url As String
url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/files/{$file_id}/content"
success = 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
    System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    System.DebugLog("Failed")
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file.")

// Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
Dim sbData As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = http.DownloadSb(url,sbData,"utf-8")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    System.DebugLog("Failed")
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder")

System.DebugLog("file content:")
System.DebugLog(sbData.GetAsString())