As it says the API key is invalid, can you make sure your API key is valid and has an active plan/subscription. You can reconnect OpenAI connection if this doesn’t solve it.
Before we dig deeper into this, could you please send a screenshot of the mapped data on your “File” field in OpenAI? Please don’t include/blur out any personal information in the screenshot.
I’m having the same issue… Keep getting ‘The app returned "The request is missing a valid API key.".’ Although this api works on other zaps for Open AI
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