"message": "You didn't provide an API key. You need to provide your API key in an Authorization header using Bearer auth (i.e. Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY)

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I’m trying to implement ChatGPT bot into my personal website and running into an issue. I am trying to connect the API key to my codebase without hardcoding it and it’s giving me a few issues. One is a certificate issue, another is an API not connecting issue. I have a .env with API_KEY=myAPIkey Below is the main code:

import { config } from “dotenv”
config()

import OpenAI from ‘openai’;

const openai = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.API_KEY // This is also the default, can be omitted
});

const chatCompletion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
model: “gpt-3.5-turbo”,
messages: [{“role”: “user”, “content”: “Hello!”}],
}).then(res => {
console.log(res)
})
console.log(process.env.API_KEY)

I’m also getting the following: “message”: "You didn’t provide an API key. You need to provide your API key in an Authorization header using Bearer auth (i.e. Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY)

2

Did you solve it? or still not working? Im having the same problem and I already checked that the api is corect and is being pass in the right way

3

Just checking you have both updated your openai libraries to the latest version

This is the latest node.js example on git

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const openai = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: 'My API Key', // defaults to process.env["OPENAI_API_KEY"]
});

async function main() {
  const chatCompletion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Say this is a test' }],
    model: 'gpt-3.5-turbo',
  });
}

main();
4

Take a look if process.env.API_KEY indeed returns the key by printing it out with console.log(process.env.API_KEY).

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