Why can't my API be called? I'm pretty sure there's no problem with the API

[JasonKid-maker]

Why can't my API be called? I'm pretty sure there's no problem with the API

[arksenu]

You are probably passing a body that isn't a valid JSON with a request that probably speccifies 'application/json'.

[space-dweeb]

I'm having this same issue, even with no JSON files attached to the assistant; I'm also getting this error, even though I haven't touched the code other than the .env file:

[The-Heyman]

It might be that your API key doesn't have the right permissions as I got the similar error and it turned out from the logs from the terminal that I missed some permissions. Bad error messaging on the UI I would say from whoever wrote this code but here is the error log:

error: { message: "You have insufficient permissions for this operation. Missing scopes: api.assistants.read. Check that you have the correct role in your organization (Reader, Writer, Owner) and project (Viewer, Member, Owner), and if you're using a restricted API key, that it has the necessary scopes.", type: 'invalid_request_error', param: null, code: 'missing_scope' }, code: 'missing_scope', param: null, type: 'invalid_request_error' }

[natalie230]

Hi I also got the errors above but saw that there is invalid api error when I look at the terminal. It seems that the problem might be that there is no code to read the api key in the .env file and to call the api?

I tried inserting the api key under the openai.ts file directly and it works without errors above which i experienced earlier

original:

import OpenAI from "openai";
export const openai = new OpenAI();

changed:

import OpenAI from "openai";
export const openai = new OpenAI({
    apiKey: "sk-...."
});

However, I would like to use the .env file(where i saved the api key) so that i do not paste the api key directly. I did this:

import dotenv from "dotenv";
dotenv.config();
import OpenAI from "openai";

export const openai = new OpenAI({
    apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY
});

But it still returns the invalid api error and does not read the key? Pls send help :')

[The-Heyman]

@natalie230 Did you rename the .env.example file to .env?
Ensure you have done that, add the API key and the assistant Id and just use:
import OpenAI from "openai"; export const openai = new OpenAI();
It should work

[srivatsavsurya]

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_api_key"

[AlmondMilk4242]

can we please close issue this issue as well.