Unleashing the Power of the OpenAI API with Node.js in 3 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Guide

--- type: transcript date: 2023-01-31 youtube_id: IS-eCZDa1RM --- # Transcript: Unleashing the Power of the OpenAI API with Node.js in 3 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Guide all right welcome so in this one I'm going to show you how you can use the open AI API in a node.js environment so the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to head over to their site and you're going to sign up for an account and once you've signed up just make sure you navigate over to this API page and then log in so once you've logged in you're going to have this interface that you're greeted with and then we're just going to put a pin in this just for a moment now we're going to pop over into our environment so I'm going to be using vs code but feel free to use whatever that the environment that you prefer and then we're going to initialize a couple files so we're going to initialize an index.js and a DOT EnV and then I'm going to initialize this directory to install a couple packages and then last I'm going to just install those packages okay next so we're gonna pop over to our API key so once we're on the website again we'll go to the top right corner and we'll click where our initial is we'll click view API key we'll click create new Secret and then from there you can copy it and then we'll go over to our DOT EnV and then we'll type open AI API key equals and then you just put your API key there all right so once we have our API key all set up but we're going to hop back over to the openai website and we're going to click examples we'll go to summarize for a second creator we'll click open in playground view code and then we're going to copy that over to our index.js so the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to require.env and then initialize that and then the next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to wrap this a weight within an asynchronous function so we'll say prompt a i equals async prompt and then just straighten out the coat a little bit and save that and then right at the bottom of our async function I'm just going to make sure that we return and then from there I'm going to just go ahead and prompt those and then after we prompt we'll just log out our results here all right there you have it so that's as easy as it is so from here you know the next step we can take that and then we can put in our own prompts and pass it in and we can say what is JavaScript and then we'll save that and there we go javascript's a programming language used for etc etc so hopefully you found this useful if you did please like subscribe leave a comment tell me what you thought um and yeah I'll see you in the next one