Why is my API key triggering an error in openAI call?

Question

The API key is working when I enter it manually in the object initialisation, but when I try to use a .env variable then an error is triggered.

This is what i've done and it doesn't work:

const APIKEY = process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY;
const configuration = new Configuration({
  apiKey: APIKEY,
});

if I console.log(process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY) it prints the correct API key. So what am I doing wrong here?

Here is the error:

Answer 1

Do you see that period at the end of the key in your error message? Make sure that's not in.env. I just had a similar problem with a semicolon.

Answer 2

The API keys have a different format, as the error message says it's incorrect. All API keys start with sk- . Try checking if you used a correct one.