chatGPT-shell-cli

A simple, lightweight shell script to use OpenAI's chatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal without installing python or node.js. The script uses the completions endpoint and the text-davinci-003 model for chatGPT and the images/generations endpoint for generating images.

Features

Chat with GPT from the terminal
Generate images from a text prompt
View your chat history
List all available OpenAI models
Set OpenAI request parameters

Getting Started

Prerequisites

This script relies on curl for the requests to the api and jq to parse the json response.

curl
```
brew install curl
```
jq
```
brew install jq
```
An OpenAI API key. Create an account and get a free API Key at OpenAI

Installation

To install, run this in your terminal and provide your OpenAI API key when asked.

curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xacx/chatGPT-shell-cli/main/install.sh | sudo -E bash

Manual Installation

If you want to install it manually, all you have to do is:

Download the chatgpt.sh file in a directory you want
Add the path of chatgpt.sh to your $PATH. You do that by adding this line to your shell profile: export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/chatgpt.sh
Add the OpenAI API key to your shell profile by adding this line export OPENAI_KEY=your_key_here
If you are using iTerm and want to view images in terminal, install imgcat

Usage

Start

Run the script by using the chatgpt command anywhere

Commands

images:, To generate images, start a prompt with image: If you are using iTerm, you can view the image directly in the terminal. Otherwise the script will ask to open the image in your browser.
history, To view your chat history, type history
models, To get a list of the models available at OpenAI API, type models
model:, To view all the information on a specific model, start a prompt with model: and the model id as it appears in the list of models. For example: model:text-babbage:001 will get you all the fields for text-babbage:001 model

Set request parameters

To set request parameters you can start the script like this: chatgpt --temperature 0.9 --model text-babbage:001 --max-tokens 100 --size 1024x1024

The available parameters are:
- temperature, -t or --temperature
- model, -m or --model
- max number of tokens, --max-tokens
- image size, -s or --size (The sizes that are accepted by the OpenAI API are 256x256, 512x512, 1024x1024)
To learn more about these parameters you can view the API documentation

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