Limitations

Individual files can be up to 512 MB.

Size of all files uploaded by one organization can be up to 100 GB.

Supports files up to 2 million tokens and of specific file types.

Create

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()

client.files.create(
  file=open("mydata.jsonl", "rb"),
  purpose="fine-tune"
)

Parameter

Purpose

• assistants: Used in the Assistants API
• batch: Used in the Batch API
• fine-tune: Used for fine-tuning
• vision: Images used for vision fine-tuning
• user_data: Flexible file type for any purpose
• evals: Used for eval data sets

Return

{
  "id": "file-abc123",
  "object": "file",
  "bytes": 120000,
  "created_at": 1677610602,
  "expires_at": 1680202602,
  "filename": "example.pdf",
  "purpose": "assistants",
}

Other

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()

# list
client.files.list()

# retrieve file info
client.files.retrieve("file-abc123")

# delete
client.files.delete("file-abc123")

# retrieve file content
content = client.files.content("file-abc123")

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