# API Authentication error - no API key provided **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [March 20, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215 "2023-03-20T13:58:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bujarib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/bujarib/32/49784_2.png) [@bujarib](https://community.openai.com/u/bujarib)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/1 "2023-03-20T13:58:55Z")
Hello, I am sorry if this has already been discussed, but I couldnt find anything. I am trying to authenticate and connect through the API, but I am receiving the following error: ## Output exceeds the size limit. Open the full output data in a text editor AuthenticationError Traceback (most recent call last) Cell In[7], line 5 3 openai.organization = “org-pPdfhAEkMwfc3yZcZvlzSmqG” 4 openai.api\_key = os.getenv(“xxx”) ----\> 5 openai.Model.list() File ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\openai\api\_resources\abstract\listable\_api\_resource.py:52, in ListableAPIResource.list(cls, api\_key, request\_id, api\_version, organization, api\_base, api\_type, \*\*params) 41 @classmethod 42 def list( 43 cls, (…) 50 \*\*params, 51 ): —\> 52 requestor, url = cls.\_\_prepare\_list\_requestor( 53 api\_key, 54 api\_version, 55 organization, 56 api\_base, 57 api\_type, 58 ) 60 response, \_, api\_key = requestor.request( 61 “get”, url, params, request\_id=request\_id 62 ) 63 openai\_object = util.convert\_to\_openai\_object( … → 186 raise openai.error.AuthenticationError( 187 “No API key provided. You can set your API key in code using 'openai.api\_key = ', or you can set the environment variable OPENAI\_API\_KEY=). If your API key is stored in a file, you can point the openai module at it with 'openai.api\_key\_path = '. You can generate API keys in the OpenAI web interface. See [onboard.openai.com](http://onboard.openai.com) for details, or email [support@openai.com](mailto:support@openai.com) if you have any questions.” 188 ) AuthenticationError: No API key provided. You can set your API key in code using 'openai.api\_key = ', or you can set the environment variable OPENAI\_API\_KEY=). If your API key is stored in a file, you can point the openai module at it with 'openai.api\_key\_path = '. You can generate API keys in the OpenAI web interface. See , or email if you have any questions. ---
**Author:** ![sps](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/sps/32/7736_2.png) [@sps](https://community.openai.com/u/sps)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/2 "2023-03-20T15:35:05Z")
Hi @bujarib Please edit your post to include the code on proper markdown. Let me know once you have done so. ---
**Author:** ![bujarib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/bujarib/32/49784_2.png) [@bujarib](https://community.openai.com/u/bujarib)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/3 "2023-03-21T08:42:40Z")
Hi @sps Please let me know if you can access this link: [Online HTML Editor - html](http://tpcg.io/_RYBNPK) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![raymonddavey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/raymonddavey/32/14125_2.png) [@raymonddavey](https://community.openai.com/u/raymonddavey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/4 "2023-03-21T08:48:59Z")
You need to urgently change your API key. You have posted it in the URL for the online editor If you don’t, other people will use your key and you will be billed ---
**Author:** ![bujarib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/bujarib/32/49784_2.png) [@bujarib](https://community.openai.com/u/bujarib)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/5 "2023-03-21T08:52:58Z")
Thanks Raymonddavey, It is a revoked key. ---
**Author:** ![raymonddavey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/raymonddavey/32/14125_2.png) [@raymonddavey](https://community.openai.com/u/raymonddavey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 8:53am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/6 "2023-03-21T08:53:35Z")
No problems - just pointing it out in case you were unaware. Keys are sometimes posted by users without them realizing ---
**Author:** ![williamrabbitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/williamrabbitt/32/78058_2.png) [@williamrabbitt](https://community.openai.com/u/williamrabbitt)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/7 "2023-04-21T00:00:27Z")
Hi all I am trying to set up Auto-GPT it worked 1st but I logged out of terminal and know i get this “openai.error.AuthenticationError: Incorrect API key provided: your\_api\_key. You can find your API key at [https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.)” The Api is correct in the .env file. Any Ideas ? OPENAI ## OPENAI\_API\_KEY - OpenAI API Key (Example: my-openai-api-key) ## TEMPERATURE - Sets temperature in OpenAI (Default: 0) ## USE\_AZURE - Use Azure OpenAI or not (Default: False) OPENAI\_API\_KEY=sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxjdC # TEMPERATURE=0 # USE\_AZURE=False ---
**Author:** ![shok.bst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/shok.bst/32/176528_2.png) [@shok.bst](https://community.openai.com/u/shok.bst)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/8 "2023-07-30T23:50:28Z")
Hello. I had the same situation for GPTVectorStoreIndex and solved it calling openai.api\_key as below. #start import os os.environ[“OPENAI\_API\_KEY”]= #To slove API Authentication error inside GPTVectorStoreIndex import openai openai.api\_key = os.environ[‘OPENAI\_API\_KEY’] # #main body from llama\_index import GPTVectorStoreIndex, download\_loader PDFReader = download\_loader(“CJKPDFReader”) loader = PDFReader() documents = loader.load\_data(file=)) #Following line generats API Authentication error without calling openai.api\_key index = GPTVectorStoreIndex.from\_documents(documents) #end ---
**Author:** ![chernov.sib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/chernov.sib/32/32843_2.png) [@chernov.sib](https://community.openai.com/u/chernov.sib)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 9:07am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/api-authentication-error-no-api-key-provided/108215/9 "2023-08-30T09:07:59Z")
I was encountering same error with python’s openai==0.27.9 package. It was working fine for completion models (gpt-3.5-turbo) and image creating, but for Whisper AuthenticationError raises. Issue has gone after i downgraded openai package to 0.27.0 Might be useful for somebody