# I am getting AuthenticationError **URL:** \ **Category:** ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers\ **Created:** [May 19, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/i-am-getting-authenticationerror/338838 "2023-05-19T13:17:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zvi\_Boiangou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19adc/32.png) [@Zvi\_Boiangou](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Zvi_Boiangou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/i-am-getting-authenticationerror/338838/1 "2023-05-19T13:17:04Z")
when running the 1’st “response = get\_completion(prompt)” I am getting : I am doing the course so i have used - openai.api\_key = “sk-” since instructor says so. AuthenticationError Traceback (most recent call last) in 16 `{text}` 17 “”" —\> 18 response = get\_completion(prompt) 19 print(response) in get\_completion(prompt, model) 1 def get\_completion(prompt, model=“gpt-3.5-turbo”): 2 messages = [{“role”: “user”, “content”: prompt}] ----\> 3 response = openai.ChatCompletion.create( 4 model=model, 5 messages=messages, ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\openai\api\_resources\chat\_completion.py in create(cls, \*args, \*\*kwargs) 23 while True: 24 try: —\> 25 return super().create(\*args, \*\*kwargs) 26 except TryAgain as e: 27 if timeout is not None and time.time() \> start + timeout: ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_Olano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/juan_olano/32/27125_2.png) [@Juan\_Olano](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Juan_Olano)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/i-am-getting-authenticationerror/338838/2 "2023-05-19T19:29:24Z")
In the notebook of the course you don’t have to change anything on the first cell - just run it. You don’t have to add your api key nor update anything in this cell. ---
**Author:** ![LadyHermitage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LadyHermitage](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/LadyHermitage)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/i-am-getting-authenticationerror/338838/3 "2023-06-27T18:32:02Z")
I am just running the code copied from Guidelines for Prompting \> Setup in JupyterLab and get the AuthenticationError as well. I have not typed any new code. Here is the end of the Traceback: AuthenticationError: No API key provided. You can set your API key in code using ‘openai.api\_key = ’, or you can set the environment variable OPENAI\_API\_KEY=). If your API key is stored in a file, you can point the openai module at it with ‘openai.api\_key\_path = ’. You can generate API keys in the OpenAI web interface. See [OpenAI Platform](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys) for details. Please advise 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ai\_curious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/ai_curious/32/128003_2.png) [@ai\_curious](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/ai_curious)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/i-am-getting-authenticationerror/338838/4 "2023-06-27T19:50:02Z")
> [@LadyHermitage](#): > > AuthenticationError: No API key provided. Asked and answered many times. Try the forum search. Note that your use case “I am just running the code copied from Guidelines for Prompting \> Setup **in JupyterLab** ” is not the same as running the notebook directly in the online environment provided by the course. If you’re running locally, you _ **must** _ obtain and utilize your own key. ---
**Author:** ![LadyHermitage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LadyHermitage](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/LadyHermitage)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/i-am-getting-authenticationerror/338838/5 "2023-06-27T21:15:05Z")
Thank you for the tip and helping me understand my use case! I appreciate your time 🙂