This week was a highly anticipated week in the world of AI with Google’s announcement of Bard and Microsoft’s announcement of the partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT features to the Bing SERP and Microsoft Edge. If you’re reading this, you have more than likely played with ChatGPT and are ready to start scaling up your use of the GPT-3 large language model in your everyday work or even as a side project.
Creating the API credentials is pretty easy and straightforward, but it doesn’t feel right to bypass this important step and jump right into the first request since this site is designed to cater up to even the greenest of beginners.
Create Your Login
First, you need to visit the OpenAI API page and select Sign Up.
This will take you to a signup page where you can sign in with Google, Microsoft, or create a separate OpenAI account using your email and a password.
Phone verification is required, so after you get logged in, it will ask for your phone number and send you a text to verify the account.
Creating Your API Key
After you’ve created your account, click on your profile drop down at the top right and click on View API Keys.
Once there, click on + Create new secret key and an API key will be generated for you. Copy the API key to your clipboard. Once you close the pop-up, you’ll never be able to recover that API key if you don’t have it stored somewhere. You can create new API keys, but OpenAI will never show you a secret key again.
If you want to follow along with my guide, create a plain text file called api-key.txt in the folder where you plan to create your Python script. Paste the API key in there and consider this step complete.
Eric is a Python SEO with a passion for data. He uses Python to automate tasks and analyze large data sets. He is often the go-to for spreadsheet challenges, too. He sees every challenge as an opportunity to learn.
