OAuth issues, eh? Sounds like someone should have used API token route instead perhaps!
Side note - someone rather knowledgeable about these things was telling me I get swindled into buying tokens and...
OAuth "Open Authorisation" is a method of sharing resources you own with third party apps.
API "Application Programming Interface" is simply a method for one application to call another application in an authorised, logged and optionally billable way.
API's are generally used machine to machine, OAuth is generally a human sharing their resources with a machine.
In financial terms for OpenAI, you are already paying for OAuth in your $20 a month subscription. API keys are a separate "Pay as you go" service.
API "Application Programming Interface" is simply a method for one application to call another application in an authorised, logged and optionally billable way.
API's are generally used machine to machine, OAuth is generally a human sharing their resources with a machine.
In financial terms for OpenAI, you are already paying for OAuth in your $20 a month subscription. API keys are a separate "Pay as you go" service.
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