Today I tried to use the ChatGPT API and send a curl request to it.
Needless to say, it did not go well.
Firstly, I made a new OpenAI account, and added my phone number.
Then I went to the Dashboard and then to API keys
I created an API key, then opened my virtual machine and typed the following request:
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "gpt-4o-mini",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say this is a test!"}],
"temperature": 0.7
}'The error I got said I hit the request limit for free API users, despite it being my first request. I then spent half an hour trying to trouble shooting and I could not figure out why it wasn’t working.