pythonopenai-api

OpenAI API throws Bad Request when uploading a file

I am using the Python version of the OpenAI API and trying to upload a file with the following code:

client.files.create(file=myFile, purpose="fine-tune")

The client has been initialized with a valid API key, and other calls to the API (to send text prompts) work correctly, but when I try to post a file I get a "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request" error.

I have verified that the file exists and is a readable text file (the code logs the first line of the file before posting it).

The code used to initialize myFile is:

myFile = open(file_path, "rb");

What could the problem be?

Solution

  • As stated by @codenanda, I was using the wrong file format. The current version of the OpenAI API only supports JSON files.