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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

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

$http = New-Object 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 -eq $false) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    $("Failed")
    exit
}

$("Downloaded OpenAI file to a local file.")

# Alternatively, download into a StringBuilder
$sbData = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $http.DownloadSb($url,$sbData,"utf-8")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    $("Failed")
    exit
}

$("Downloaded OpenAI file to a StringBuilder")

$("file content:")
$($sbData.GetAsString())