Files

Files are used to upload documents that can be used with features like Assistants and Fine-tuning.

List files

$ openai files list

GET/files

Upload file

$ openai files create

POST/files

Delete file

$ openai files delete

DELETE/files/{file_id}

Retrieve file

$ openai files retrieve

GET/files/{file_id}

Retrieve file content

$ openai files content

GET/files/{file_id}/content

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file_content: string

file_deleted: object { id, deleted, object }

id: string

deleted: boolean

object: "file"

file_object: object { id, bytes, created_at, 6 more }

The File object represents a document that has been uploaded to OpenAI.

id: string

The file identifier, which can be referenced in the API endpoints.

bytes: number

The size of the file, in bytes.

created_at: number

The Unix timestamp (in seconds) for when the file was created.

filename: string

The name of the file.

object: "file"

The object type, which is always file.

purpose: "assistants" or "assistants_output" or "batch" or 5 more

The intended purpose of the file. Supported values are assistants, assistants_output, batch, batch_output, fine-tune, fine-tune-results, vision, and user_data.

"assistants"

"assistants_output"

"batch"

"batch_output"

"fine-tune"

"fine-tune-results"

"vision"

"user_data"

Deprecatedstatus: "uploaded" or "processed" or "error"

Deprecated. The current status of the file, which can be either uploaded, processed, or error.

"uploaded"

"processed"

"error"

expires_at: optional number

The Unix timestamp (in seconds) for when the file will expire.

Deprecatedstatus_details: optional string

Deprecated. For details on why a fine-tuning training file failed validation, see the error field on fine_tuning.job.

file_purpose: "assistants" or "batch" or "fine-tune" or 3 more

The intended purpose of the uploaded file. One of:

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