How to get the value of OPENAI_API_KEY?

Question

I am wondering to set a key for api in the following statement

openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")

Please let me know where should I find it.

Answer 1

Hello @Rao, Vinod (CTR) HHHH

Thanks for reaching out to us, you can find the key by going to your resource in the Azure portal. The Endpoint and Keys can be found in the Resource Management section. Copy your endpoint and access key as you'll need both for authenticating your API calls. You can use either KEY1 or KEY2. Always having two keys allows you to securely rotate and regenerate keys without causing a service disruption.

Then you need to create and assign persistent environment variables for your key and endpoint before you run the line - openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY") You need to save it to your Environment variables, please open your command line and run below, replace with your key value -

setx OPENAI_API_KEY "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_KEY_VALUE_HERE" 

You can also use PowerShell as below -

[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('OPENAI_API_KEY', 'REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_KEY_VALUE_HERE', 'User')

Please let me know if you need more help, we are happy to help you further.

Regards,

Yutong

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Answer 2

Hello!

Please check out the Python quickstart for details on retrieving and using your API keys for Azure OpenAI.

In short, once you've onboarded with Azure OpenAI and created an Azure OpenAI resource, you can copy one of the two keys from the "Keys and Endpoint" pane for the resource in Azure Portal and use that as the value for the environment variable.

Answer 3

Hi, FOllowed the same steps and it is still not workig. Used the ENDPOINT API key and yet it says connection issue.