How to store API keys in environment variable? and call the same in google colab

Question

I'm not sure how to make a ".json" file with my GPT-3 API key/environment variable, but I'd like to utilize it in Google Colab for automatic code generation.

Could someone please show me how to do this?

I want to get the API key from the.json file using the code below.

with open('GPT_SECRET_KEY.json') as f:
    data = json.load(f)
openai.api_key = data["API_KEY"]

Answer 1

To read from a json file you do the following:

import json

my_key = ''
with open('GPT_SECRET_KEY.json', 'r') as file_to_read:
    json_data = json.load(file_to_read)
    my_key = json_data["API_KEY"]

The structure of your json file should look something like this.

{
    "API_KEY": "xxxxthis_is_the_key_you_are_targetingxxxx", 
    "API_KEY1": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "API_KEY2": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}

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