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Getting Your OPENAI_API_KEY

The GPT-5 API allows developers to access OpenAI's latest language model, which features improved reasoning capabilities and adjustable parameters for response generation.

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Getting Your OPENAI_API_KEY

This guide explains how to obtain your OpenAI API key.

🔑 Step 1: Get Your OpenAI API Key

  1. Go to https://platform.openai.com
  2. Log in with your OpenAI account (or create one if you don’t have it yet).
  3. In the left sidebar, click “View API keys” or navigate directly to
    https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys
  4. Click “Create new secret key” and give it a name (for example: astro-app).
  5. Copy the key immediately — it will only be shown once.

Your key will look something like this:

sk-proj-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

⚙️ Step 2: Add Your API Key to Your Environment

In your project root, create a .env file (if you don’t have one yet):

touch .env

Add your key:

OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-proj-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

That’s all you need to connect your project to the OpenAI API securely.

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