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OpenAI Help Center
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Best Practices for API Key Safety | OpenAI Help Center
You’re all set! You can now reference the key in curl or load it in your Python: import os import openai openai.api_key = os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] There are a variety of products available for safely managing secret API keys. These tools allow you to control access to your keys and improve your overall data security.
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OpenAI
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Developer quickstart | OpenAI API
A simple API request to the Responses ... main() { client := openai.NewClient( option.WithAPIKey("My API Key"), // or set OPENAI_API_KEY in your env ) resp, err := client.Responses.New(context.TODO(), openai.ResponseNewParams{ Model: ...
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How does OpenAI API handle API key rotation?
Regular rotation is recommended. Create a new key, update your applications to use it, and then deactivate the old key to minimize service disruption.
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What is the OpenAI API?
The OpenAI API provides access to OpenAI's AI models, including versions of GPT, Codex, and DALL·E. It lets developers add AI features such as text generation, translation, and content creation to their applications.
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How to use OpenAI API and API Key? New Guide (2025) | Adeppto
How can I keep my OpenAI API key secure?
Do not hard‑code keys in code or public repos. Use environment variables to store keys. Limit access and consider separate keys per app or environment. Rotate keys regularly via the API dashboard.
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OpenAI API Keys page
Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
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Zapier
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How to use the OpenAI API (+ create a key) | Zapier
July 8, 2024 - Close the pop-up. On the left-side menu, click API keys. On the top right of the screen, click Create new secret key. Note: you can only create an API key once you verify your account with your phone number.
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create an OpenAI API key
Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
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How to use OpenAI API and API Key? New Guide (2025) | Adeppto
October 21, 2025 - Copy this key and paste it into the application where you intend to use it. Set Usage Limits (Optional): To control how much you spend each month on the API, you can set usage limits by clicking on “Usage limits” in the left menu and entering ...
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AI Content Labs
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How to Set Up the OpenAI API Key in AI Content Labs
January 7, 2025 - Log in to your AI Content Labs account: https://app.aicontentlabs.com. In the user menu (bottom-left), select “Set Up API Keys”. Locate the OpenAI card and click on “Connect”. Paste the API key you copied into the corresponding field.
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Codecademy
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How to Create and Use an OpenAI ChatGPT API Key | Codecademy
The Authorization header is used to authenticate with the OpenAI API using a bearer token. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the actual API key you generated. The Content-Type header is set to “application/json” to indicate that the request body ...
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INFO 2951
info2951.infosci.cornell.edu › tutorials › openai-key.html
Create your OpenAI key – INFO 2951
Once you have an account, log in to OpenAI and navigate to the API keys. Make sure you are viewing the dashboard under our “INFO 2951” organization. If that is not the default setting, use the dropdown menus to adjust this.
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Medium
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How To Get Your Own OpenAI API Key | Medium
September 6, 2024 - Go to the API Keys page and click on the button Create new secret key.
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No API KEY provided - API - OpenAI Developer Community
February 18, 2022 - You can set your API key in code using ‘openai.api_key = ’, or you can set the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY=). If your API key is stored in a file, you can point the openai module at it with ‘openai.api_key_path = ’. You can generate ...
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How to Use and Get OpenAI API Key: Complete Guide
January 22, 2025 - ... Go to OpenAI’s platform and log in. Navigate to the “API” section from your dashboard. If you don’t have a key yet, click “Create new secret key”. If you already have one, it will be displayed here.
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OpenAI Help Center
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Assign API Key Permissions | OpenAI Help Center
You can set permissions for each of your API when you create a new secret key or by editing an existing key. To create a new secret key, select Create new secret key in API Keys page of the Developer Platform.
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Medium
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AI API Key Essentials Part 1 : How to Set Up Your OpenAI API Key: A Quick Beginner Guide | by Alozie Igbokwe | Medium
May 30, 2024 - If you don’t have an account, click Sign Up. After logging in, click on the Dashboard text at the top right-hand side. ... On the Dashboard, locate and click on the API Key text on the left-hand side.
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GPT for Work
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Set up your OpenAI API key | GPT for Work Documentation
Expand the model settings. Select a model. Models that are available with an API key are listed under Use your API key. GPT for Docs now uses the selected model to generate responses. As a general rule, OpenAI models are more reliable and less likely to decline prompts than models from other ...
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OpenAI Developer Community
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How to generate openai api key - API - OpenAI Developer Community
September 28, 2023 - need to create openai api key for some development i need this and how to use this by which i can automate thing arcading to me
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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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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.

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How-To Geek
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How to Get an OpenAI API Key
August 20, 2023 - Go to OpenAI's Platform website at platform.openai.com and sign in with an OpenAI account. Click your profile icon at the top-right corner of the page and select "View API Keys."
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API Reference - OpenAI API
1 2 3 curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \ -H "X-Client-Request-Id: 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000" OpenAI is committed to providing stability to API users by avoiding breaking changes in major API versions whenever reasonably possible.