openai-python: openai.error.AuthenticationError:

Describe the bug

Since yesterday 24.05.2023 around your outage I am facing this errors:

..
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openai/api_resources/embedding.py", line 33, in create
    response = super().create(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openai/api_resources/abstract/engine_api_resource.py", line 153, in create
    response, _, api_key = requestor.request(
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openai/api_requestor.py", line 230, in request
    resp, got_stream = self._interpret_response(result, stream)
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openai/api_requestor.py", line 624, in _interpret_response
    self._interpret_response_line(
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openai/api_requestor.py", line 687, in _interpret_response_line
    raise self.handle_error_response(
openai.error.AuthenticationError: <empty message>

I tried several approaches, thought LangChain would be the problem, thought a vectorstore is it, but now I think it must be something with the API as I rebuilt with several options and it all leads to the same error.

To Reproduce

openai.api_key = OPENAI_KEY or os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")

# where texts can be a list of strings like 
texts = ["test", "foo"]
for i in texts:
    response = openai.Embedding.create(
        input=i,
        model="text-embedding-ada-002"
    )
    embeddings = response['data'][0]['embedding']

Code snippets

No response

OS

macOS, m1-chip

Python version

Python 3.10.9

Library version

openai==0.27.7

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Reactions: 14
Comments: 42 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

This problem has been bothering me for a week.

Finally, I found out that when you pass your openai-api-key to a public space(such as github), your openai-api-key on the OpenAI website(https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys) will be automatically deleted, and then you will have this error report.

So you must regenerate a key and ensure that it is not transferred to the public space.

gh18l on Jun 22, 2023

can you try the solution in this order?

1- open .env file (in project root directory) & add OPENAI_API_KEY OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-....

2- implement this lines in your python file:

config = dotenv_values('.env')
openai.api_key = config['OPENAI_API_KEY']
os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = config['OPENAI_API_KEY']

3- call langchain method (implicitly openai method)

I saw that LangChain read the wrong key from os’s environment value

mehmetkoca on Jun 2, 2023

i had this problem. When i checked my API key on platform.openai.com, it had disappeared. I know i havent deleted it, but suddenly it had been lost. So i just created a new API key and continued using without problems. Hope this will also solve you problems guys ))

amirymax on Jun 1, 2023

In our case, we generated another token, and that fixed the issue

xmnlab on May 30, 2023

@mehmetkoca thank you! Your solution works for me! I still don’t know, why my old code stopped working, but I’m just glad, it works now:)

stanstan86 on Jun 2, 2023

Actually, that might not help. Could we instead ask for more debugging information? The Authentication Error should have more details. Something like this as a wrapper around your code might do the trick:

try:
  # openai stuff
except openai.error.AuthenticationError as e:
  print("OpenAI unknown authentication error")
  print(e.json_body)
  print(e.headers)

hallacy on May 31, 2023

I am getting the same error when trying to use the SQL Database Agent.

This is my code,

from langchain.agents import create_sql_agent
from langchain.agents.agent_toolkits import SQLDatabaseToolkit
from langchain import SQLDatabase
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI

llm = ChatOpenAI(model_name='gpt-3.5-turbo')

db = SQLDatabase.from_uri("sqlite:///chinook.db")
toolkit = SQLDatabaseToolkit(db=db, llm=llm)

agent_executor = create_sql_agent(
    llm=llm,
    toolkit=toolkit,
    verbose=True
)

agent_executor.run("Describe the playlisttrack table")

I am running the latest versions of Python, langchain and openai.

LangChain uses the OpenAI Python SDK so that’s the main issue. I had as described problems with several libraries.

grumpyp on May 27, 2023