ChatGPT in Node.js in 2 Minutes

--- type: transcript date: 2023-03-01 youtube_id: ChO9hSy4Zpo --- # Transcript: ChatGPT in Node.js in 2 Minutes in this tutorial I'll show you how to get started with the chatgpt API in node.js the chat GPT API was just released today by openai and it's a text generating AI That's gained massive popularity you may already be familiar with this online interface but now you can use it on your own apps and services I'll walk you through each step of the process from setting up your environment to generating a response from the API using node.js let's get started the first thing we need to do is initialize our project directory to do this open up your terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to create your project once you're there run the command npm init y to initialize a new node.js project after that we need to require a couple dependencies by running the command npmiopenai.env this will install the openai API client and Dot EnV packages finally we need to create a new file called index.js using the command touch index and create a DOT EnV to store our openai API key using the command touch EnV next let's navigate to the openai platform at platform.openai.com overview once we're there we'll go to the top right corner of the page click our initial and then click view API keys from there we'll click create new secret key and copy the key provided now let's open up our DOT EnV file and type openai underscore API underscore key equals following by the key we just copied this will securely store our API key in our environment variables with that taken care of we can move on to our code we'll start by importing the openai API client called openai API from the configuration object we'll then load the openai API key from the environment using the dot EnV packages and create a new configuration object with the API key we'll use this configuration object to create a new instance of the open AI API client next we'll Define a function called chatgpt that takes a prompt as an argument and sends it to the openai API to generate a response the response will be returned from the chat GPT function finally we'll call the chat GPD function with a prompt print the response from the API if it's successful if there are any errors will print those as well and that's it we're ready to get started generating responses with chat GPT and node.js