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Files

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

Retrieve file content

$ openai files content

GET/files/{file_id}/content

Upload file

$ openai files create

POST/files

Delete file

$ openai files delete

DELETE/files/{file_id}

List files

$ openai files list

GET/files

Retrieve file

$ openai files retrieve

GET/files/{file_id}

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file_content: string

file_deleted: object { id, deleted, object }

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

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

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