pydantic.v1.error_wrappers.ValidationError | Did not find openai_api_key

[ravisksahu]

Hi, I am a complete novice in coding. tried replicating the steps and got errors. Following is the log-

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Ravi Kumar\Desktop\New folder\langchain-rag-tutorial-main\langchain-rag-tutorial-in-rag-tutorial-main\query_data.py", line 29, in main
embedding_function = OpenAIEmbeddings()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Ravi Kumar\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\pydantic\v1\main.py", line 341, in init
raise validation_error
pydantic.v1.error_wrappers.ValidationError: 1 validation error for OpenAIEmbeddings
root
Did not find openai_api_key, please add an environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY which contains it, or pass openai_api_key as a named parameter. (type=value_error)

please help.

[taureanamir]

you need to create a file named .env in the root directory of the project. it should contain the following line
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-proj-xxxxxxx
The API key you can get from your open ai account https://platform.openai.com/