Error when using OPEN AI API

[tstanek390]

I have an issue with running the client with open ai API, tried to export the key as shown and stated in docs, tried to create .env file, reinstalled the whole repo and deps several times, but I'm still getting this:

File "/Users/admin/miniforge3/envs/research/lib/python3.11/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 885, in _request
raise self._make_status_error_from_response(err.response) from None
openai.AuthenticationError: Error code: 401 - {'error': {'message': 'Incorrect API key provided: {sk-IvWw*****************************************gl9}. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.', 'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'param': None, 'code': 'invalid_api_key'}}

The API key is working with all other services and tasks, but GPT-researcher, tried a dozen of newly generated keys too, with different companies. All without a success.
What could cause the issue?
Cheers

[assafelovic]

Hi @tstanek390 thanks for raising this. Did you try doing like so export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... within the root directory?

[assafelovic]

Also you can test if it exists by adding these lines to the main.py file:

import os
env_variable_value = os.getenv('OPENAI_API_KEY')
print(env_variable_value)

[tstanek390]

thanks for the answer, stupid me, i put brackets on the api key itself, and that was the reason behing the error. Now its working perfectly, thanks a lot for great project, big ups! :)

[assafelovic]

Great to hear!