
How to Get an OpenAI API Key (and Keep It Safe)
How to get an OpenAI API key in 4 steps, then keep it out of your frontend, set a spend limit, and revoke it fast if it leaks.
Notes tagged Secrets.

How to get an OpenAI API key in 4 steps, then keep it out of your frontend, set a spend limit, and revoke it fast if it leaks.

A .env file stores app settings and secret keys as NAME=value lines. See the format, how to create one, and the two ways it ends up public.