On December 11th, OpenAI added Cloudflare protections that make it more difficult to access the unofficial API.
To circumvent these protections, we've added a **fully automated browser-based solution**, which uses Puppeteer and CAPTCHA solvers under the hood. 🔥
This package works to access ChatGPT pretty consistently, even after OpenAI added Cloudflare protections. To circumvent these protections, we've added a **fully automated browser-based solution**, which uses Puppeteer and CAPTCHA solvers under the hood. 🔥
```ts
import{ChatGPTAPIBrowser}from'chatgpt'
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@@ -19,12 +17,18 @@ const result = await api.sendMessage('Hello World!')
console.log(result.response)
```
This solution is not lightweight, but it does work a lot more consistently than the previous REST API-based approach. For example, I'm currently using this approach to automate 10 concurrent OpenAI accounts for my [Twitter bot](https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-twitter-bot). 😂
To use the updated version, **make sure you're using the latest version of this package and Node.js >= 18**. Then update your code following the examples below, paying special attention to the sections on [Authentication](#authentication), [Restrictions](#restrictions), and [CAPTCHAs](#captchas).
This solution is not lightweight, but it does work a lot more consistently than the previous REST API-based approach. For example, I'm currently using this approach to automate N concurrent OpenAI accounts for my [Twitter bot](https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-twitter-bot). 😂
We recently added support for CAPTCHA automation using either [nopecha](https://nopecha.com/) or [2captcha](https://2captcha.com). Keep in mind that this package will be updated to use the official API as soon as it's released, so things should get much easier over time. 💪
There are some restrictions to be aware of, however:
- Cloudflare doesn't like requests coming from data center IPs, so you'll either have to run it locally or use a residential IP proxy.
- You should only have one `sendMessage` request at a time per browser instance and OpenAI account.
- It can be difficult to reliably process `sendMessage` requests after awhile. My best advice for handling this is to wrap your usage in some basic retry logic as well as a daemon which restarts your Node.js process every hour or so. This is unfortunately a byproduct of there not being an official API, so keep that in mind before using this in production.
If you run into any issues, we do have a pretty active [Discord](https://discord.gg/v9gERj825w) with a bunch of ChatGPT hackers from the Node.js & Python communities.
Lastly, please consider starring this repo and <ahref="https://twitter.com/transitive_bs">following me on twitter <imgsrc="https://storage.googleapis.com/saasify-assets/twitter-logo.svg"alt="twitter"height="24px"align="center"></a> to help support the project.
Thanks && cheers,
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```
<details>
<summary>Or, if you want to use the REST-based version:</summary>
<summary>Or, if you want to use the REST-based version: (not advised at this time)</summary>
```ts
import{ChatGPTAPI,getOpenAIAuth}from'chatgpt'
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@@ -199,7 +203,21 @@ A [basic demo](./demos/demo.ts) is included for testing purposes:
npx tsx demos/demo.ts
```
A [conversation demo](./demos/demo-conversation.ts) is also included:
A [google auth demo](./demos/demo-google-auth.ts):
```bash
npx tsx demos/demo-google-auth.ts
```
A [demo showing on progress handler](./demos/demo-on-progress.ts):
```bash
npx tsx demos/demo-on-progress.ts
```
The on progress demo uses the optional `onProgress` parameter to `sendMessage` to receive intermediary results as ChatGPT is "typing".
A [conversation demo](./demos/demo-conversation.ts):
```bash
npx tsx demos/demo-conversation.ts
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@@ -299,6 +317,7 @@ All of these awesome projects are built using the `chatgpt` package. 🤯
-[Twitter Bot](https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-twitter-bot) powered by ChatGPT ✨
- Mention [@ChatGPTBot](https://twitter.com/ChatGPTBot) on Twitter with your prompt to try it out
-[ChatGPT API Server](https://github.com/waylaidwanderer/node-chatgpt-api) - API server for this package with support for multiple OpenAI accounts, proxies, and load-balancing requests between accounts.
