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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.

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Chilkat2 Java
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Http;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringBuilder;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        Http http = new Http();

        // Adds the "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" header.
        // This is NOT a real key.  Change the "sk-vi...." to your own key.
        http.setAuthToken("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");

        String file_id = "file-1H4vJq0H775gQVrjWY5jpp15";

        // Download to local file.
        String 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."
        try {
            http.download(url, "c:/aaworkarea/mydata.jsonl");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            System.out.println("Failed");
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file.");

        // Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
        StringBuilder sbData = new StringBuilder();
        try {
            http.downloadSb(url, "utf-8", sbData);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            System.out.println("Failed");
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder");

        System.out.println("file content:");
        System.out.println(sbData.getAsString());
    }
}