Classic ASP

OpenAI (ChatGPT) Retrieve File Content

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.

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<html>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
success = 0

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

set http = Server.CreateObject("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"
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 = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file.") & "</pre>"

' Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
set sbData = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = http.DownloadSb(url,sbData,"utf-8")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder") & "</pre>"

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "file content:") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sbData.GetAsString()) & "</pre>"

%>
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