AuthenticationError: Error code: 401

API
1

Hello,

I tried to run some inference in a Jupyter Notebok but I cannot manage to get a valid connection.

The documentation and looking here in the forum or online didn’t help me at all.

I added a credit card and have a balance of 10 USD.

The key is copy and pasted correctly.

In the Notebook I tried to set the key with these 3 versions:

openai.api_key = 'sk-proj-XXX'
os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = 'sk-proj-XXX'
%env OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-proj-XX'

When I try to run this code:

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    # This is the default and can be omitted
    api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
)

gpt_model = "gpt-3.5-turbo-0125"

chat_completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Say this is a test",
        }
    ],
    model=gpt_model,
)

or this

client = OpenAI(
  organization='org-XXX', # it has the actual org ID
  project='proj_XXX', # it has the actual project ID
)

gpt_model = "gpt-3.5-turbo-0125"

chat_completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Say this is a test",
        }
    ],
    model=gpt_model,
)

I get the same error message:

AuthenticationError: Error code: 401 - {'error': {'message': "Incorrect API key provided: 'sk-proj**********************************************Ldy'. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.", 'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'param': None, 'code': 'invalid_api_key'}}

As I am fairly new to this. What am I doing wrong?

2

Hmmm…
Try it:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
      api_key="API_KEY_OPENAI"
)

maybe you specified the wrong key? or the key was created incorrectly. When creating a key, try giving it all access rights.

3

I tried it and I get the same result.

The key has all permissions:

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4

Have you tried generating a new key and seeing if you get the same result?

5

That’s not going to work. Sending the string and not your actual key.

The OpenAI python client will use an environment variable API_KEY_OPENAI automatically - when you set it in the OS or the environment.

It was just two days ago I produced an AI response telling someone how to set an environment variable: https://chatgpt.com/share/b2c99472-e3ee-4067-ab2c-f39a7e29c0ed

There is no need to put anything as parameters in the client, unless you want a particular timeout or are billing to a different organization you are a member of.

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6

What?! I simply specified API_KEY_OPENAI as a stub that needs to be replaced. What’s not clear here?

7

It would be clear if it didn’t look like an environment variable.

client = OpenAI(api_key="sk-proj-use your actual API key string here")

However, hard-coded keys are a path to leaked keys.

8

I got it to work today. I created yet another key and it worked. Honestly, I have no idea what went wrong.

Thanks for the support!

9

I tried both variations anyhow yesterday, neither would work, but it did today. While not good practice, I don’t mind hard-coding the key here. Once I am done with the task, I will delete the key and this project isn’t going to be committed anywhere either.

Thanks for the reminder!