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JavaScript Build a Basic ChatGPT Clone with Vanilla JavaScript

Kira Banks
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Kira Banks
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Kira Banks
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 9,058 Points

My AI won't answer. Error 429 in the Console

I am getting an error in the console when I try asking my AI chat a question. I don't believe I overloaded it with requests or anything because it gave me this error from the start:

index.js:44 POST https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions 429

index.js:72 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0')

at updateMessage (index.js:72:36)

at index.js:62:19

I can't seem to find anything different in my code from the video, so I'm not sure what the issue is. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated!

2 Answers

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Hi Kira Banks 👋

The 429 status code indicates that you're being rate limited. When on a free plan for the OpenAI API you're limited to make 3 requests per minute. If you make more than 3 request per minute you'll experience this error. After waiting for a minute you should be getting the responses back again as expected 🙂

Kira Banks
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Kira Banks
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Kira Banks
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I see, I haven't been able to get it to respond at all though. I'm not sure why I'm getting the 429 error with just one request. Is there anything else I should check? I also tried creating and connecting a new api key, but no luck. :(

Julia Lissel
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I have the same issue, I can't get any response back Kira Banks Rohald van Merode And I have waited several minutes